Social budgeting
- At the beginning of 2020 with the globally spreading pandemic of COVID-19 and all its social and economic consequences, the importance of having comprehensive, universal and effective social protection systems became once again – like during all the major economic and social crises before – very clear (Gentilini et al. 2020; Chapter 43 of this volume). Countries with strong social protection systems, although needing to enhance many benefit provisions and extend coverage to reach those in non-standard forms of employment, still were coping better with the pandemic and had better chances of cushioning the resulting economic downturn. However, we know from past experience that after the crisis is over, austerity measures may focus again on limiting social expenditure under all kinds of excuses.
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| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
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| Language: | English |
| Author: | Krzysztof Hagemejer, Wolfgang Scholz |
| Parent Title (English): | Schüring, Loewe (Eds.): Handbook on Social Protection Systems |
| Number of pages: | 14 |
| First Page: | 320 |
| Last Page: | 333 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-83910-911-9 |
| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:1044-opus-58079 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839109119.00044 |
| Publisher: | Edward Elgar Publishing |
| Place of publication: | Cheltenham, UK |
| Publishing Institution: | Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg |
| Date of first publication: | 2021/08/10 |
| Departments, institutes and facilities: | Fachbereich Sozialpolitik und Soziale Sicherung |
| Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC): | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 36 Soziale Probleme, Sozialdienste / 361 Soziale Probleme und Sozialhilfe im Allgemeinen |
| Entry in this database: | 2021/08/20 |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |
