Fighting inequality in the time of COVID-19: The Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index 2020
External Cooperation Infopoint
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The coronavirus pandemic has swept across a world that was already profoundly unequal. In country after country, it has magnified and worsened pre-existing inequalities. The 2020 Commitment to Reducing Inequality (CRI) Index shows clearly how the majority of the world’s countries were woefully unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic. Only one in six countries assessed for the CRI Index 2020 were spending enough on health, only a third of the global workforce had adequate social protection, and in more than 100 countries at least one in three workers had no labour protection such as sick pay. As a result, many were left brutally and unnecessarily vulnerable, and inequality in increasingly dramatically.
This virtual Infopoint conference will present and discuss the findings of the 2020 edition of the CRI Index. The CRI Index ranks 158 governments across the world on their commitments to reduce inequality. It measures government policies and actions in three areas that are proven to be directly related to reducing inequality:
- Public services (health, education and social protection)
- Taxation
- Workers’ rights
The CRI Index is developed and delivered through a partnership between Development Finance International and Oxfam International.
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