• Login
    View Item 
    •   OpenDocs Home
    • Institute of Development Studies Research Repository
    • Covid-19 Responses for Equity (CORE)
    • Supporting essential economic activity - protecting informal businesses, small producers and women workers
    • View Item
    •   OpenDocs Home
    • Institute of Development Studies Research Repository
    • Covid-19 Responses for Equity (CORE)
    • Supporting essential economic activity - protecting informal businesses, small producers and women workers
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy: Executive Summary

    Thumbnail
    Download
    WIEGO COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy: Executive Summary (730.9Kb)
    Date
    2021-07
    Author
    WIEGO
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    Impact
    Abstract
    Informal employment accounts for over 60 per cent of all global employment, representing roughly two billion workers, and 90 per cent of employment in developing countries (ILO 2018). Early in the COVID-19 crisis, the ILO projected that 1.6 billion informal workers would be among those most severely affected and that they would lose 60 per cent of earnings during the first months of the pandemic (ILO 2020). The ILO forecasted that this would lead to a sharp growth in relative poverty levels among informal workers from 26 to 59 per cent globally, and a staggering 18 to 74 per cent among informal workers in low-income countries (Ibid). In regions that have experienced the worst effects of the pandemic and which have a high prevalence of informal employment, progress in reducing income poverty could be set back by 30 years (Sumner et al 2020).
    URI
    https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/16766
    Citation
    WIEGO (2021) COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy: Executive Summary, Manchester: WIEGO
    More details
    https://www.wiego.org/publications/covid-19-crisis-and-informal-economy-executive-summary
    Rights holder
    WIEGO © 2021
    Rights details
    https://www.wiego.org/using-and-citing-material-wiego
    Sponsor
    IDRC | CRDI
    Collections
    • Supporting essential economic activity - protecting informal businesses, small producers and women workers [109]

    About OpenDocs | OpenDocs Policy | Help | Contact Us | Send Feedback | Disclaimer and Cookies
     

     

    Browse

    All of OpenDocsCommunities & CollectionsBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsThis CollectionBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjects

    My Account

    LoginRegister

    Statistics

    Most Popular ItemsStatistics by CountryMost Popular Authors

    About OpenDocs | OpenDocs Policy | Help | Contact Us | Send Feedback | Disclaimer and Cookies