Almost 6 out of 10 people, 57%, mentioned difficulties to have diversity in their diet or to eat three times a day.
Informal workers earn only 64% of the income they received before the pandemic of covid-19, as revealed this Wednesday by a report by the association Women in informal employment: globalizing and organizing (Wiego, for its acronym in English).
“Four out of ten (40%) domestic workers, street vendors and recyclers earned, in mid-2021, less than 75% of their pre-covid income,” added the report based on a survey in 11 cities of the world, including Mexico City, Lima and New York.
The “Study on the Covid-19 crisis and the informal economy” warned that the ravages of the pandemic still affect the 2 billion informal workers in the world, 61% of the economically active population (EAP).
Based on a survey of more than 1,600 people in nine countries, the report found that half of 2021 informal workers they worked four days a week, “Well below” the 5.5 weekly days of the precovid era.
The study concluded that domestic workers are “the most affected sector”, because the income of this group was still at 2% of the level before the pandemic, “which reveals the profound devastation in this sector, composed mostly of women”.
Against this background, about a third of all respondents stated that a person in their home “had been hungry during the month prior to the survey.”
Almost 6 out of 10 people, 57%, mentioned difficulties to have diversity in their diet or to eat three times a day.
Likewise, Wiego reported that “access to social assistance is not improving and could be decreasing” because there have been decreases in government support.
“Governments could be making the situation worse instead of helping. Of those surveyed, 48% needed capital to resume their activities, but only 9% of them used an emergency grant for this purpose and only 7% received a loan from the Government ”, he warned.
In addition to Mexico City, Lima (Peru) and New York (USA), the survey was also conducted in Accra (Ghana), Ahmedabad (India), Bangkok (Thailand), Dakar (Senegal), Dar es Salaam ( Tanzania), Delhi (India), Durban (South Africa), Pleven (Bulgaria) and Tiruppur (India).
Wiego’s study found inequality between access to anticovid vaccination in the “global south” and the rich countries of the north.
“Most of the informal workers are on the wrong side of the world. world ‘vaccine apartheid’”, He mentioned.
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The inquiry recommended “meeting immediate material needs” through food aid and grants.
He also called for funding businesses and livelihoods, and supporting employment and recovery.
Similarly, it was urgent to extend social protection, including the access to social security, health coverage and basic income support for equality with formal employees. (I)
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