This paper uses a newly assembled data set on various types of social protection spending in 154 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021 to analyze the effect of the electoral cycle on the size and composition of the social protection stimulus budget. The analysis shows that the longer is the time since the last election in a country—and thus the sooner the next election date—the larger is the share of the social protection pandemic...
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ПОДРОБНАЯ ИНФОРМАЦИЯ
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2022/10/20
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Рабочий документ в рамках исследования вопросов политики
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WPS10214
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2022/10/20
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Disclosed
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Electoral Cycles and Public Spending during the Pandemic