Emergency responses to COVID-19 and opportunities for inclusive social policy

Journal article

Abstract:: This article addresses whether responses to COVID-19 created opportunities for future policy change. We explore this matter by presenting a framework rooted in political economy and the literature on pandemics. We argue that the opportunities created by emergency responses are context-specific and that narratives, policy tools, and pro-equity state actors are variables that mediate emergency responses and future opportunities. We ground our analytical contribution on the emergency cash transfers deployed during 2020 following the COVID-19 outbreak in two contrasting Central American countries, Costa Rica and Guatemala. The paper promotes further policy discussion on the opportunities for progressive change in unequal contexts.

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Language:: English
Keywords:: FFR

pandemics

social policy

COVID-19

policy change

Central America
Pubs id:: 2055216
Local pid:: pubs:2055216
Deposit date:: 2024-11-07

Copyright holder:: Franzoni and Sánchez-Ancochea
Rights statement:: © The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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