Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/243394 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2021/68
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
This paper explores the impact of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa on income poverty and inequality in South Africa. Using a static tax-benefit microsimulation model with input datasets that were adjusted to reflect people's earned incomes just before the pandemic (March 2020) and during the first national lockdown (April 2020), we investigate how well the social protection system in South Africa was able to mitigate the economic losses to the public. We take into account both the existing benefit system that was in place before the crisis and the role of the new policy measures that were introduced in April, May, and June 2020.
Subjects: 
social policy
tax-benefit microsimulation
income distribution
South Africa
COVID-19 pandemic
JEL: 
C63
C81
H24
D31
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9267-006-1
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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