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Kenya's Social Policy Response to Covid-19: Tax Cuts, Cash Transfers and Public Works
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Körperschaftlicher Herausgeber
Universität Bremen, SFB 1342 Globale Entwicklungsdynamiken von Sozialpolitik / CRC 1342 Global Dynamics of Social Policy
Abstract This report summarises and analyses Kenya’s social policy response to Covid-19. Following the global outbreak of the pandemic, Kenya’s parliament passed several economic and social laws. Tax law amendments aimed to cushion citizens and businesses from the negative effects of the disease by increasin... mehr
This report summarises and analyses Kenya’s social policy response to Covid-19. Following the global outbreak of the pandemic, Kenya’s parliament passed several economic and social laws. Tax law amendments aimed to cushion citizens and businesses from the negative effects of the disease by increasing household income for basic needs and enabling businesses to remain in operation. Other significant measures instituted were social protection interventions in the form of cash transfers and public works programmes targeted to poor and vulnerable households. Kenya’s social policy response to the pandemic followed a continuity path of minimal state provisioning. The government’s overreliance on cash transfers as the major form of social policy intervention resulted in an inadequate, exclusionary and ill-suited response.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Kenia; Sozialpolitik; Gesundheitspolitik; Epidemie; Public Health; soziale Unterstützung; Sozialhilfe; Sozialleistung; Arbeitsmarktpolitik; Finanzhilfe; Ostafrika
Klassifikation
Gesundheitspolitik
soziale Sicherung
Freie Schlagwörter
Pandemie; Covid-19; Corona virus
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2021
Erscheinungsort
Bremen
Seitenangabe
17 S.
Schriftenreihe
CRC 1342 Covid-19 Social Policy Response Series, 27
ISSN
2702-6744
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht kommerz., Keine Bearbeitung 3.0