In a Bloomberg piece, Dr. Kate Orkin discusses policy options for countries during the pandemic and how many arguments against cash transfers are not supported by rigorous evidence.
Dr Kate Orkin joins a specialist panel selected by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction to discuss how we respond to risk and how insights from behavioural economics can inform policy and media communications.
In coordination with a new World Bank report, Dr. Stefan Dercon joins a panel of experts to discuss a new World Bank's report on how the current situation presents a window of opportunity to prepare for the future, apply 'no-regrets' policies and refresh the way we approach education.
In this VoxDev talk, Clement Imbert and Kate Orkin discuss the tools available to policymakers in developing countries that best mitigate the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on society’s most vulnerable, including job retention schemes, low interest credit, and unconditional cash transfers.
How to soften the economic blow of COVID-19? Kate Orkin discusses the stimulus package put together by the South African Government including the expansion of social grants and why cash transfers can be more effective that giving out food parcels.
In an overview of the South African Government response to COVID-19, Kate Orkin reflects on the importance of both a humane response and long term investment to protect the social grants system currently in place.
Kate Orkin spoke to Eusebius Mckaiser, South Africa's leading radio breakfast show, to discuss how government can use various social security mechanisms like the child support grant, to bring relief to the most vulnerable in the context of COVID19 shocks. The show was based on a brief at econfip with Prof Clement Imbert and Francois Gerard.