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May 27, 2020La República

Hugo Ñopo in La República’s Sigrid.pe: factors that explain why the quarantine in Peru would not have worked

Our senior researcher, Hugo Ñopo, spoke with Sigrid Bazán, from La República, about the factors that explain why the quarantine in Peru would not have worked. On the issue of informality, he said: “Little more than 6 million independent workers, almost 5 million people bring to their home at the end of the month an amount of money that is below the minimum living wage. This is a pre-pandemic statistics. Let’s imagine the post-pandemic situation”.