For all its devastation, the Covid-19 crisis does have a silver lining: it has shone a spotlight on important policy lapses – beginning with the lack of social protection for the world’s two billion informal workers. But addressing this failure will require more than social programmes; it will also require governments to bridge the digital divide. During the pandemic, social programmes supporting the “missing middle” – informal workers who are excluded from standard employment-linked social security and often do not qualify for social programmes that target the very poor – relied heavily on digital technologies. Registration happened on smartphones. Governments verified beneficiaries using
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