Jahid Nur, Autor bei Urbanet

About Jahid Nur

Jahid Nur is a Trainee Research Associate at the BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), Brac University, under the qualitative stream of the Young Researchers’ Fellowship (YRF) programme. Jahid completed his bachelor’s in Statistics from the University of Dhaka in 2018 and his master’s in Development Studies from BRAC University in 2022. He has a keen interest in the issues of gender, livelihood, capital, capabilities, and intersectionality.

Female Informal Workers in Dhaka during COVID-19: Unnoticed and Unprotected as Always

Risk and Crisis Management

Female Informal Workers in Dhaka during COVID-19: Unnoticed and Unprotected as Always

By Jahid Nur|2024-01-04T16:38:48+01:00October 13th 2022|

Informal workers contribute greatly to countries’ economic growth. Over 43 per cent of the national GDP in Bangladesh is generated by the informal sector, where women are overrepresented. In times of crisis, however, they are often left unprotected. Jahid Nur on the situation of female informal workers in Bangladesh during COVID-19.