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Informal employment: what is missing from national economic recovery plans?

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  • Siviwe Mhlana
  • Rachel Moussié
  • Sally Roever
  • Michael Rogan

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Throughout 2021, fiscal stimulus packages were introduced to jump-start the COVID-19 'post-pandemic' economic recovery process. While calls for economic recovery packages that promise to 'build back better' have come from many directions, the under-allocation of recovery resources directed at workers in the informal economy threatens the recovery of livelihoods for the majority of the world's workforce. This paper analyses the economic recovery approaches of two low-income (Bangladesh and Kenya) and two middle-income (South Africa and Thailand) countries.

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  • Siviwe Mhlana & Rachel Moussié & Sally Roever & Michael Rogan, 2023. "Informal employment: what is missing from national economic recovery plans?," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2023-92, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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