Opportunity Cost Of Covid-19 Budget Reallocations: South Africa
This brief forms part of a cross-country study on the opportunity cost of reallocating budgets in response to disasters. The study, which this brief is based on, seeks to identify and quantify the opportunity costs associated with diverting funding from planned budgeted activities in South Africa, using the covid-19 pandemic as a case study to analyse public expenditure decisions, with a focus on what was not spent as a result of the pandemic.
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Policies and actions to reduce disaster risks, manage impacts and strengthen resilience.
A natural or human process that can cause injury, damage or disruption.
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