Covid-19 economic impact: fate of Egypt’s irregular workers, underprivileged uncertain  

Covid-19 economic impact: fate of Egypt’s irregular workers, underprivileged uncertain  

Comments Off on Covid-19 economic impact: fate of Egypt's irregular workers, underprivileged uncertain. It is not clear whether the current situation has affected the sectors that involve irregular workers, such as construction.. The report set the poverty line at around $1.45 per day and the extreme poverty line at less than one dollar a day.. Upper Egypt topped the list of the poorest areas in the county.. Egypt's government also announced EGP 100bn emergency fund to be used to combat coronavirus and cushion impacts on the Egyptian economy.. Egypt's Ministry of Manpower announced last week the provision of an exceptional aid worth EGP 500 for irregular workers who are already registered in the database of the ministry, estimated to be around 300,000 workers.. There are different estimates of informal and irregular workers in Egypt.. Mohamed Gad, an economic journalist and a researcher, told Daily News Egypt that there is a need to reach out to more vulnerable workers, saying that the number of registered workers in the database of the ministry of manpower is meagre compared to the number of irregular workers in Egypt.. Gad noted the