Women in the Informal Sector Hit Hard by the MCO
By Yeong Pey Jung
August 2020 FEATURE
NO DOUBT, businesses and employees in the non-essential sectors have suffered from significant income losses. But it is in the informal sector that workers have been in especial distress.Even before Covid-19, daily wage earners and people who were self-employed were already struggling to make ends meet; and since they were heavily dependent on daily wages, the likelihood of their falling into poverty during the pandemic was especially high.1 Adding to this, their working conditions did not provide them with any...
Yeong Pey Jung
is a senior analyst with the Socioeconomics and Statistics Programme at Penang Institute. She is a reading enthusiast and is surgically attached to her Kindle.
