Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Migrant Workers in the Informal Sector and Spin-off Effects in Their Destination and Home Countries
T20 Policy Brief, Saudi Arabia G20
(with Mohamed Sharif Ahmed, Dramane Coulibaly, Hind Kinani, Ana B. Moreno, Luc Désiré Omgba, Nhusha Vu)
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has posed major challenges to healthcare systems worldwide. It will also have long-lasting effects on the economy, pushing millions around the world into precarity and poverty. The already vulnerable will be hit even harder—the slum dwellers; irregular and undocumented migrants, who are mostly women; and low-skilled migrant workers engaged in the informal sector. Furthermore, as migrant workers lose their jobs, this will impact not only the economies they work in, but also their home countries’ economies. Policy action supporting the workers and enterprises operating in both the formal and informal economy is critical in the recovery phase… [Read more]
Les stratégies de lutte contre le réchauffement climatique s’affinent: vers un nouveau cap après la COP21?
La chronique de la Lettre d’EconomiX
Pendant la première quinzaine du mois de décembre 2015, près de 200 chefs d’Etat et de gouvernement se sont réunis pour la 21e conférence de l’Organisation des Nations Unies sur le changement climatique (COP21). En une quinzaine de jours, ils doivent ainsi sauver la planète… [Read more]