The recently released International Labour Organization Report – World Employment and Social Outlook Trends 2021 – has underscored the harsh reality that the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic are not confined solely to loss of lives.
The Report, which bares the multi-dimensional nature of the pandemic, asserted that the devastating economic crisis resulting from Covid-19 is expected to push global unemployment levels above 200 million next year and that the customarily hardest hit victims, women and youth workers are again expected to bear the brunt of the joblessness burden. Latin America and the Caribbean, already among the poorest regions in the world, are inevitably, named among the likely worst-affected regions from the loss of jobs in the first half of 2021.
