The COVID cost for Asia’s informal workers
Friday, Jun 30, 2023, 02:42 AM | Source: Pursuit
Redento Recio, Iderlina Mateo-Babiano, Kazi Nazrul Fattah, Shiva Nouri, Nausheen H. Anwar, Noman Ahmed, Ian Jayson Hecita, Michele Acuto
As COVID-19 took hold across borders in 2020 and 2021, more than 1.6 billion informal workers were estimated by the United Nations to have been impacted by mobility restrictions and other ‘lockdown’ measures to tackle the coronavirus pandemic.
The International Labour Organization defines the informal economy as a diverse set of economic activities, enterprises, jobs and workers that are in law or in practice not covered, or insufficiently covered, by formal arrangements.
