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

Abstract

This is a desk-review research conducted on the title, “Potential implications of COVID-19Pandemic on Unemployment in Ethiopia: Desk Review Analysis”. The researchers reviewedliteratures and other relevant materials on the topic. The issue of unemployment in general andwith respect to the pandemic in subject under study has been reviewed. Based on the reviewedmaterials, the researchers have provided suggestions and lessons as to what our country shoulddo 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 theinformal sector the most; countries should strongly work towards minimizing income inequalityin their countries as “we are only as safe as the most vulnerable among us” and “povertyanywhere constitutes a danger to prosperity everywhere”. That is to say, governments shouldwork towards bringing social justice for their citizens.