 "Migrants, who have arrived from various part of the country, wait to board special buses arranged by the State government to reach their native places, amid the nationwide lockdown in Patna. Photo: PTI")
The 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, according to a new briefing paper issued by the International Labour Organisation (ILO).
In high-income countries, relative poverty levels among informal workers are estimated to increase by 52 percentage points, while in upper middle-income countries the increase is estimated to be 21 percentage points.
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
