Informal workers they receive 64% of the income they received before the pandemic of COVID-19, that is 36% less than before the health crisis, according to a global study carried out by the association Women in informal employment: globalizing and organizing (Wiego, for its acronym in English).
The investigation called Informal Economy and COVID-19 reveals that “four out of ten (40%) domestic workers, street vendors and recyclers in mid-2021 were still earning less than 75% of their precovid income.”
Along the same lines, the report that collects data from 11 cities in nine countries in the world, including Lima, New York and Mexico City, found that informal workers worked four days a week, less than 5.5 days on average they worked before the global health crisis.
Based on the survey of 1,600 people, the research concludes that the domestic workers they are the most affected sector. “By mid-2021, the typical income of this group were only 2% of pre-pandemic levels, which reflects the depth of the devastation in this predominantly female sector ”, he mentions.
Wiego’s report also notes that the crisis forced workers to adopt harmful practices. Thus, respondents indicated that they were forced to ask borrowed money (46%), resort to already scarce savings (35%) or reduce family spending on non-food items (26%) and food (23%).
Finally, 48% of respondents revealed that they needed capital to resume your work. However, only 9% of them used government aid grants for this purpose, and only 7% received government loans.
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