Dragan Radic, Head, ILO Small and Medium Enterprises Unit

I have many friends who run their own small businesses, in Europe, Australia, and Asia. They include dental clinics, restaurants, small travel agencies, and manufacturing businesses. All have been forced to close. Continue reading →

Afsar Syed Mohammad, Senior Technical Specialist, Gender Equality, Diversity and ILOAIDS

COVID-19. Quarantine. Lock down. Shortages of medicines. How is this affecting the more than 37 million people living with HIV globally? Continue reading →

Jayati Ghosh, Development Economist

The world is now in the grip of an unprecedented crisis, with the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic and the very adverse economic impact of containment measures. The pandemic has highlighted something that had been almost forgotten by policy makers across the world in the past few decades; the importance of expenditure in public health and social protection systems. Continue reading →