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Coronavirus crisis: About 400 mn Indians may sink into poverty, says ILO
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Geneva: With 90 per cent of people working in India's informal economy, about 400 million workers are at risk of falling deeper into poverty during the coronavirus crisis, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has said.
Current lockdown measures in India, which are at the high end of University of Oxford's COVID-19 Government Response Stringency Index, have impacted these workers significantly, forcing many of them to return to rural areas, according to ILO Monitor 2nd edition: COVID-19 and the world of work. "It is the worst global crisis since the Second World War.
Worldwide, two billion people work in the informal sector (mostly in emerging and developing economies) and are particularly at risk," said ILO. "Workers and businesses
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