Poor Protection : The Role of Taxes and Social Benefits in the Developing World During Crises

An open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence.It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. This book examines the role of social protection and taxation systems in developing countries during times of crises.The main objective of the work is to promote understanding about proper crisis response, and the way social protection and tax systems can be made more sustainable to support countries' paths through and out of economic crises.While there is a vast body of literature evaluating social protection programmes in general, few of these focus on episodes of crisis.During the COVID-19 pandemic, the number and scale of social protection programmes increased rapidly around the globe, but many developing countries lacked a systematic approach to social protection and taxation.Crises have a devastating effect on employment, incomes, and livelihoods.These impacts are more dangerous when p