| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday, April 16, 2020 | 9:00AM - 11:00AM | External Event, Virtual Event |
Virtual discussion on the impact of Covid-19 on informal sector workers in the Global South & possible policy responses and research avenues.
As the world grapples with the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, vulnerable workers in the informal sector in the global south have been hit hard. As vendors working in close quarters and or as frontline care-workers in households, many are particularly vulnerable to contracting the virus. A lack of institutionalised sick leave means that for many informal employees, there is an explicit trade-off between their health and their financial survival. While necessary phases of lockdown are threatening livelihoods in the informal economy, government relief efforts are frequently only reaching formal workers and businesses.
This Digital Roundtable aims to bring together scholars on informality working across the globe to compare experiences and discuss both how we can better understand the crisis’ effects on informal economies and which relief efforts are or should be made.
The Roundtable will include brief interventions from all the speakers, followed by an open discussion. All are welcome. Please register to receive a Zoom invite link.
Speakers:
Kate Meagher (Associate Professor in Development Studies, Department of International Development, LSE)
Umair Javed (Assistant Professor. Department Of Humanities & Social Sciences, LUMS)
Gerard McCarthy (Postdoctoral Fellow at Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore)
Vanessa van den Boogaard (Research Fellow, IDS)
Max Gallien (Research Fellow, IDS)
+ additional speakers to be confirmed
About the ICTD
The International Centre for Tax and Development is a global policy research network, devoted to improving the quality of tax policy and administration in developing countries, with a special focus on sub-Saharan Africa. Find out more: www.ictd.ac
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