With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the public social spending-to-GDP ratio increased from 20% of GDP in 2019 to 23% in 2020 across the OECD on average. This surge in the spending-to-GDP ratio was largely (over 80%) due to an increase in spending rather than a decline in GDP.
Private social expenditure and the influence of tax systems
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