Proteção social e COVID-19: a resposta do Brasil e das maiores economias da América Latina

Abstract

Timing, sufficiency, coherence and coordinatio n are essential factors for the success of social protection measures. This exploratory study sought to evaluate the content and response time of the main emergency social protection policies issued by the federal government of Brazil and five other Latin American economies: Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru; as a response to the double crisis sanitary and socioeconomic caused by the COVID 19. Chile and Argentina, countries where the response was more agile and coordinated, are amongst the mos t successful ones in controlling the negative effects of the pandemic. Brazil, despite the larger number of measures and higher spending on social protection, shares with Mexico, the country with the most delayed response, the worst contagion and mortality trajectories of the disease until now. The results suggest that the agility in issuing emergency social protection measures was essential to protect vulnerable populations in the current epidemic and also a decisive factor for the success of the disease control