- Title
- Social Protection, the COVID-19 Crisis, and the Informal Economy: Lessons from Relief for Comprehensive Social Protection
- Creator
- Alfers, Laura C
- Creator
- Juergens-Grant, Florian
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date Issued
- 2024
- Date
- 2024
- Type
- text
- Type
- book chapter
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/478228
- Identifier
- vital:78166
- Identifier
- ISBN 9780198887041
- Identifier
- 10.1093/oso/9780198887041.001.0001
- Description
- One of the overarching lessons from the COVID-19 crisis has been the need for universal social protection; social protection which covers everyone, including the so-called ‘missing majority’ of workers in the informal economy. What was clear from the hard lockdowns of 2020 wasthat the lack of adequate social protection coverage exacerbated the economic fallout of the crisis, with many informal workers—over 60 per cent of those sampled in the first round of Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing’s (WIEGO’s) COVID-19 and the Informal Economy Impact Study—unable to access even the most basic relief measures extended by governments whilst earning little to no income.
- Format
- 353 pages
- Format
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Alfers, L and Juergens-Grant, F. 2024. Social Protection, the COVID-19 Crisis, and the Informal Economy Lessons from Relief for Comprehensive Social Protection. COVID-19 and the Informal Economy, Oxford University Press
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