Emergency income in times of pandemic

ABSTRACT

This article investigates the international panorama of the implementation of Emergency Income in context of the Coronavirus pandemic. To this, we use i. the database of Social Protection and Jobs Responses to Covid-19 (World Bank) produced from the survey on five continents;ii. data from newspaper articles around the world;and iii. data from the official websites of local governments in different regions of the globe. Particularly in Brazil, we found several adversities of this emergency policy i. the long lines for registration of the benefit generating agglomeration;ii. initial difficulties regarding non-regularized CPF;iii. the delay in making the decision to pay the aid;iv. the precariousness of human resources;v. little familiarity with digital technologies among the poorest population;and vi. the problems of horizontal and vertical inefficiency. Lastly, this study aims to bring contributions to the conflictual relation between State and Society in times of health crisis. © 2021, Universidade de Brasilia. All rights reserved.