COVID-19

Quick impact assessment of COVID-19 pandemic on the key economic sectors: Responses, adjustment and resilence of business and workers

With the objective of studying the impacts of Covid-19 pandemic and the responses and the adjustment processes by businesses and workers, the research is mainly based on two surveys of 58 firms and 292 workers in tourism, garment, electronics, seafood-processing and wood-processing industries during the second half of April 2020.

This assessment was conducted by Dr Do Quynh Chi, Research Center for Employment Relations (ERC), for the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Viet Nam.

The report is an activity within the framework of the Decent work in the garment sector supply chains in Asia project funded by the Swedish Government, the Promoting the application of ILO Fundamental Conventions under the framework
of the EU-Viet Nam Free Trade Agreement project funded by the European Union, the Responsible Supply Chains in Asia project funded by the European Union, and the New Industrial Relations Framework project funded by the Japanese Government. The publication does not constitute an endorsement by the Swedish Government, the European Union or the Japanese Government of the opinions expressed in it.