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This event was a two-day online conference convened by UNU-WIDER on the impact of COVID-19 pandemic in Africa, 11-12 February 2021. The third session of the conference featured presentations on the implications for livelihoods and welfare.

Presentations:
Michael Danquah & Simone Schotte, UNU-WIDER: Effects on employment and earnings (7:07)
Jesse Lastunen, UNU-WIDER: The mitigating role of tax and benefit rescue packages for poverty and inequality amid the COVID-19 pandemic (31:14)
Isabella Schmidt, UN WOMEN: Gender perspectives of COVID-19 (49:59)

This session was chaired by UNU-WIDER Research Fellow Maureen Were.

Read more and see the programme of the conference: https://www.wider.unu.edu/node/238219

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