Source page: McKinsey & Company
Commentary
From here to there: How Brazil and other countries deliver pandemic benefits
COVID-19 | Financial services | Payments
February 1, 2021 – COVID-19 has been a tough, real-life stress test for government disbursement schemes. We assessed their health on six dimensions across seven countries. Click through the interactive to learn more about each country’s programs.
Interactive
To read the article, see “COVID-19: Making the case for robust digital financial infrastructure,” January 26, 2021.
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Visual form
Country-by-country radar-chart sequence.
Layout / body structure
The embedded chart is built as a slide-through sequence of country panels, each using the same radar chart on the left and a program-description column on the right. Reader moves country by country, reading the six-axis infrastructure shape first and then the bullet list of government disbursement programs beside it.
What is being compared
Each panel compares structural features of country-level financial infrastructure for individuals and businesses across six dimensions tied to digital ID, payment channels, and relevant linked data. Across the sequence, the same framework is compared for Brazil, India, Nigeria, Singapore, Togo, the UK, and the US.
Measurement system
The radar chart uses a normalized 0 to 100 scale on each axis, with ring labels marking the increments. Two filled polygons carry the comparison: bright blue for individuals and dark navy for businesses.
Visible structure inside the graphic
Every slide repeats the same six-axis spider frame, with labels such as population with digital ID, population with digital channels for payment disbursement, businesses with digital ID, and businesses with digital channels for payment disbursement around the perimeter. The right side of each panel then adds one to three bullet points describing the specific COVID-19 government disbursement programs used in that country.
Main takeaway from the visual
Countries with broader digital-ID coverage and stronger digital payment rails show fuller polygons and more flexible disbursement infrastructure, while thinner shapes reveal the operational limits in weaker systems. Singapore and India look structurally much fuller than Nigeria and Togo, and Brazil, the UK, and the US sit in the middle with stronger coverage on some axes than others.
Key standout values or extremes
India reaches the outer ring on population with digital ID, and Singapore nearly fills the lower business half of the radar while also showing strong individual coverage. Nigeria and Togo have the sparsest overall shapes, especially on the right-side linked-data and digital-ID dimensions, while the UK and US show strong payment-channel coverage but much smaller shapes on the linked-data axes.
Controls / sequence, when applicable
In the embedded chart, the reader advances through country panels one slide at a time, comparing the same radar template across each geography. The interaction is a country carousel rather than a free-form dashboard, so the main control is stepping from one national case to the next.
Companion media, when applicable
There is no separate companion audio or video; the chart is the full visual on this page.