Covid-19 Responses for Equity (CORE): Recent submissions
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Recognition, Responsiveness and Reciprocity: What Informal Worker Leaders Expect from the State, the Private Sector and Themselves
(Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2022-06-10)More than a year after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, evidence continues to accumulate that its economic impact has disproportionately hit vulnerable populations (OECD 2020). In the world of work, the most severe ... -
The Impact of the Ukraine War on the Arab Region: Food Insecurity in an Already Vulnerable Context
(Arab Reform Initiative, 2022)The Ukraine war is causing a surge in the price of wheat and food essentials and a shortage in these commodities worldwide. These infographics illustrate the impact of this war on the Arab region in terms of increasing ... -
Le droit au logement comme lutte de places, d’espaces et de marges Le cas des migrants subsahariens en Tunisie
(Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights (FTDES), 2022-06)Rattaché au principe de la dignité, avoir droit à un logement signifie protéger la dignité et l’intégrité physique et psychique de l’individu. Ce droit implique l’accès àun logement sécurisé, habitable, doté de services ... -
The Covid-19 Pandemic and the Evolution of Migration Intentions Among Tunisian Households
(Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights (FTDES), 2021-12)This study grew out of theoretical and field inquiries, to which we do not intend to give an answer, but rather increase the reflection on. As concerns the liberating civic identity of this study and human rights background, ... -
Designing Surveys and Analysing Results from a Gender Perspective in Economic Research
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-11-29)This document provides guidance on the integration of gender and diversity considerations into applied research in economics focusing on countries in which the informal sector is predominant. It draws inspiration from the ... -
Collective Action to Support Family Farming in Colombia
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-11-11)The Covid-19 pandemic has hit small- scale farmers, particularly women, very hard in Latin America. RIMISP – Latin American Center for Rural Development – has been conducting participatory research to mitigate the impact ... -
The Socioeconomic Impact of Covid-19 in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Synthesis of Learning from the Covid-19 Responses for Equity Programme
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-10-06)This report provides a snapshot of the research undertaken and published by members of the IDRC-supported CORE programme. It sets out the main themes addressed by the research in relation to Covid-19 impacts on industries, ... -
Macroeconomic Policy Development in Tanzania
(SAIIA, 2022-03-07)Since independence, Tanzania has experienced a series of economic shocks, which have pushed the country into an economic crisis. From mid-1980 onwards, major macroeconomic variables have been fluctuating, forcing the ... -
Impact Of Covid-19 On Women Workers In The Urban Informal Economy In Uganda And Kenya
(International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), 2022)Globally, 2 billion of the world’s employed population aged 15 and older work informally, representing 61.2 percent of global employment, with the vast majority of employment in Africa (85.8 percent) being informal (ILO, ... -
Transforming Work for Women in the Informal Economy: Gaps And Opportunities For Social Protection In Uganda
(International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), 2022-02)This paper outlines the role of social protection mechanisms in safeguarding individuals' livelihoods while also providing safety nets necessary to help them cope with or respond to risks, emergencies, or crises. It ... -
Strengthening Food Security in Pakistan During the Covid-19 Pandemic
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-09-05)Pakistan is facing numerous socioeconomic impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic, including on food security. Food insecurity, which is a long-standing issue, has become more visible since the pandemic. Covid-19 Responses for ... -
Building Safer and More Sustainable Food Systems in Peru
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-07-20)The Covid-19 pandemic has aggravated the food insecurity situation of people living in Latin American cities. In Peru, the most vulnerable are facing great difficulties in accessing food, while food market vendors are also ... -
La crisis de la COVID-19 y la economía informal en Lima, Perú: impactos duraderos y una agenda para la recuperación
(Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO), 2021-12)La crisis del COVID-19 y la economía informal es un estudio longitudinal llevado a cabo por WIEGO que evalúa los efectos de la crisis del COVID-19 en ciertos grupos ocupacionales de personas trabajadoras en empleo informal ... -
Priorities for a fair recovery from COVID-19 in Latin America
(Southern Voice, 2021-11-23)On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared that the COVID-19 outbreak could be characterised as a pandemic. Since then, Latin American countries have worked to mitigate the spread of the virus and curb ... -
Priorities for a Fair Recovery from COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa
(Southern Voice, 2021-10)The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the world and shaken it. At the time of writing this paper, the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 dashboard reports 173,609,772 confirmed cases of COVID-19 including 3,742,653 deaths. In ... -
Priorities for a Fair Recovery from COVID-19 in South Asia
(Southern Voice, 2021-09-30)This study identifies a set of priorities that South Asia must focus on to ensure a fair recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Undoubtedly, the socio-economic fallout from the pandemic has been considerably great. The ... -
Informality and the Pandemic - Lives of Domestic Workers and Street Vendors in Delhi During Covid-19
(International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), 2022)COVID-19 has deepened existing social inequalities and heightened the risks for economic precarity, gender based violence as well as aggravated the lack of access to sexual and reproductive health and rights among marginalized ... -
COVID-19 Policies and Women in Informal Work in India - A REBUILD Scoping Report
(International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), 2021)The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought a global socio-economic crisis, with profound implications for the wellbeing of individuals, households and communities. It has further deepened existing social inequalities, heightened ... -
The Care Economy in the New Social Contract
(Southern Voice, 2022-03)Care work, whether paid or unpaid, supports all economic activities in societies on a global scale. However, in Latin America, as illustrated in Figure 1, care provision tends to fall disproportionately on households, with ... -
COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy: Informal Workers in Pleven, Bulgaria
(Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO), 2020-12)COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy is a WIEGO-led 12-city longitudinal study that assesses the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on specific groups of informal workers and their households. Using a survey questionnaire ...