South Africa responded to the stresses of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown using a
combination of existing social protection programmes, unemployment insurance, and …

The term 'pandemic precarity'has recently been advanced to describe the negative social
and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on vulnerable populations (Choonara et …

Background Perpetual food insecurity has long-term health and development effects on
populations. The global pandemic created sub-populations that were newly food insecure …

This study analysed the 2020 first quarter to 2022 second quarter waves of the Quarterly
Labour Force Survey (QLFS) data and all five waves (2020–21) of the National Income …

The implementation of global migration governance processes such as the 2030
Sustainable Development Agenda and the Global Compact for Migration has been stalled …

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has impacted the world in unprecedented ways.
To deal with the virus, countries across the world implemented COVID-19-related protocols …

This paper seeks to identify the differentiated impacts of the crisis on specific groups of
informal workers. The analysis draws on official nationally representative labour force …

This book investigates women's political participation in Africa. Going beyond the formal
institutions of electoral politics, it explores a range of spaces where everyday politics take …

abstract Varied roles of informal food traders, ranging from localised distribution of foods to
provision of jobs, became more accentuated in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in …

Informal workers, who make up over 60 per cent of the global working population, and
significantly more than that in most low-income countries–are social protection's “missing …