Informal sector: social protection for everyone

in: D+C (4/2022), 22-23

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In low- and middle-income countries, too many people lack any kind of public support when illness, unemployment or environmental disasters strike. This is especially true of those who work in the informal sector . It is high time to establish universal social-protection schemes everywhere.

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