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Tara Kanel and Shreya Paudel

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Forgotten folks

Published On: May 3, 2020 03:00 PM NPT By: Tara Kanel and Shreya Paudel

Crises have a differential impact depending on pre-existing vulnerabilities. The Covid-19 pandemic-triggered lockdown in Nepal has hit daily wage workers or informal workers the hardest. It is instructive to understand the pre-existing vulnerabilities that have caused this extreme impact on informal workers as they constitute 85 percent of Nepal’s workforce.