Poverty In Pandemic Times

Poverty in pandemic times

The pandemic crisis due to Coronavirus has caused many inconveniences in several countries of the world, reaching such a point to cause restrictions that affect the economy of several people and/or states.

A few years ago people worried about being replaced from their work by artificial intelligence. Now, fear is to be paralyzed by the Coronavirus, this is why it is several times to work in the informal sector, in other words, work without any insurance, under any contract and even without officially stating as a worker. 

This difficult situation has been a great blow to the population that could barely survive with the livelihoods that he achieved daily, therefore, people in a poverty situation go to extreme poverty and middle -class people are increasing.

International organizations and governments have sought certain strategies to reduce the effects of the crisis, focusing on the most vulnerable, allocating millions of dollars to the sectors most affected by confinement, however, the aid could not be sufficient and in many cases of casesIt will not arrive quickly.

Seeing the initiative to help the most needy, countries around the world are also added to apply similar measures for their inhabitants, providing methods for the most vulnerable people, for example, the delay of payment of taxes, basic services and even thecancellation of these.

Ecuador is located in the Top twenty countries most affected by COVID-49 worldwide, not only because of the infections that exist, also because of the large number of unemployment, the government tries to maintain jobs by establishing certain conditions through thehumanitarian law.

The Ecuadorian population would be affected by 6% in relation to poverty, resulting in 33.6% of this.

If a family has to suffer the loss of a loved one, it not only has and is in the situation of carrying out its deserved funeral, but also formulating several strategies that help with the expenses and income of the household, this gets worse when the head of household dies, because it affects the economic situation of the whole family, whether due to their short or long term income. The aforementioned is another point by which the poverty caused by pandemic increases.

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean expresses that the arrival of the Coronavirus has left strong consequences and damage to repair, causing a delay of at least ten years for Latin America, that is, the level that has been reached in these years of the productGross internal will be compared to the year of 2010.

If a government decays its population too, that is why each country must have good control over it;The State is in charge of ensuring the well -being of its citizens, but it is not always so, because corruption abounds, even more in these times of pandemic, that is what causes its inhabitants not to develop their economic level, inMany cases falling into poverty.

According to ILO data, all social sectors have been affected by quarantine, social isolation, or confinements, harming about 1.600 million workers belonging to the informal sector group. The rights of people have also been affected;The right to work has been violated on many occasions, a clear example is the so -called "untimely dismissals". 

Poverty levels have caused many problems, becoming one of the most abound in these times of pandemic, as well as inequality;A great example is the situation in Mexico, according to the National Council for Evaluation of Social Development Policy, many of its inhabitants do not exceed the lower income that the poverty line has, ascending up to 49%.