Pandemic and rural employment, by Hugo Ñopo and Daniel Pajita
“To what is already worrying about the drop in employment that has recently spread, it must be added that paid employment has fallen even more. People are shifting to forms of subsistence employment, helping family members in their farms or businesses. the rural economy should be one of the issues to prioritize on the medium-term agenda.” Hugo Ñopo, Senior Researcher at GRADE, and Daniel Pajita, Research Assistant at GRADE, write about the dynamics of rural employment in pandemic in the blog Foco Economico.
