Potential Implications of COVID-19 Pandemic on Unemployment in Ethiopia Desk Review Analysis

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Leta Sera
Jemal Abafita
Achalu Berecha

Abstract

This is a desk-review research conducted on the title, “Potential implications of COVID-19
Pandemic on Unemployment in Ethiopia: Desk Review Analysis”. The researchers reviewed
literatures and other relevant materials on the topic. The issue of unemployment in general and
with respect to the pandemic in subject under study has been reviewed. Based on the reviewed
materials, the researchers have provided suggestions and lessons as to what our country should
do to mitigate the unemployment problem of the pandemic. The following lessons were drawn,
vis.a.vis, inclusion of the informal economy into the formal sector as the pandemic hits the
informal sector the most; countries should strongly work towards minimizing income inequality
in their countries as “we are only as safe as the most vulnerable among us” and “poverty
anywhere constitutes a danger to prosperity everywhere”. That is to say, governments should
work towards bringing social justice for their citizens.

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Leta Sera, Jimma University

Assistant professor, Department of Economics

Jemal Abafita

This is a desk-review research conducted on the title, “Potential implications of COVID-19
Pandemic on Unemployment in Ethiopia: Desk Review Analysis”. The researchers reviewed
literatures and other relevant materials on the topic. The issue of unemployment in general and
with respect to the pandemic in subject under study has been reviewed. Based on the reviewed
materials, the researchers have provided suggestions and lessons as to what our country should
do to mitigate the unemployment problem of the pandemic. The following lessons were drawn,
vis.a.vis, inclusion of the informal economy into the formal sector as the pandemic hits the
informal sector the most; countries should strongly work towards minimizing income inequality
in their countries as “we are only as safe as the most vulnerable among us” and “poverty
anywhere constitutes a danger to prosperity everywhere”. That is to say, governments should
work towards bringing social justice for their citizens.

Achalu Berecha, Jimma University

Lecturer, Department of Economics, Jimma University