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Title: PIDE COVID-19 Bulletin: no. 16 : protecting the internal migrant workers
Contributors: Iqbal, Nasir
Keywords: Covid-19-lockdowns and protecting the Intra-country migrant workers in Pakistan
Issue Date: 2020
Publisher: Islamabad: Pakistan Institute of Development Economics
Abstract: "With the calls for social distancing and lockdown, the COVID-19 outbreak has shutdown business operations across the country. As projected, millions of people are facing potential layoffs (see PIDE COVID-19 Bulletin No. 4) but the situation is doubly bad for the internal migrant workers who are staying away from homes to earn a livelihood. While we worry about remittances from the overseas workers, these internal migrant workers remain largely ignored in all our discussions. The official statistics show that around 8.51 million migrant workers are working across Pakistan (based on the Labor Force Survey 2017-18). Table 1 shows that of these 45% are engaged in informal activities including day laborers, construction workers, domestic helpers or factory workers. Furthermore, more than 65% migrant workers are residing in only 15 districts across Pakistan, with over a million workers just in Karachi, followed by major numbers in Lahore, Faisalabad, Rawalpindi and Islamabad"
URI: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp011c18dk13g
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