The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for West Asia (ESCWA), in collaboration with United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), has launched the COVID-19 Stimulus Tracker.
It is a global observatory on social protection and economic policy responses to support Member States as they build back better from the pandemic.
The COVID-19 Stimulus Tracker compiles all social protection and economic policy support measures implemented by Governments and presents them in a state-of-the-art visualization platform.
It includes quantitative and qualitative information on several policy measure categories, including:
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social assistance
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social insurance
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loans and tax benefits
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labour markets
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health-related support
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financial policy support
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general policy support
The tool also enables building country profiles on social protection and economic policy responses to the pandemic.
The COVID-19 Stimulus Tracker is a UN contribution to the global community. It has three unique features that can facilitate policy dialogue at the global, regional, and national levels, which
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enables comparison of national policy measures vis-à-vis global, regional and income-group levels in respect of equity, coverage, and adequacy of measures
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promotes peer learning on policy actions through user-friendly navigation
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helps estimate the financial needs of countries and regions for impact mitigation using global or regional average benchmarks
