The International Labour Organisation has called for a policy limiting the exposure of the informal sector to the coronavirus pandemic.
In its latest report titled, ‘Contagion or starvation, the dilemma facing informal workers during the COVID-19 pandemic,’ ILO predicted that lockdown measures would worsen poverty and vulnerabilities among the world’s two billion informal economy workers.
ILO said, “COVID-19 lockdown and containment measures threaten to increase relative poverty levels among the world’s informal economy workers by as much as 56 percentage points in low-income countries. “ As many as 1.6 billion of the world’s two billion informal economy workers are affected by lockdown and containment measures. Most are working in the hardest-hit sectors or in small units more vulnerable to shocks.”
“More than 75 per cent of total informal employment takes place in businesses of fewer than ten workers, including 45 per cent of independent workers without employees.
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