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.