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    Interaction of COVID-19 and Informal sector
    (UMT Lahore, 2020) MEHBOOB UL HASSAN; ABDUL QADIR
    COVID has spilled over to all the countries, sectors, and socioeconomic groups of the communities in all over the world. Among all, some groups bear a larger chunk of burden. In particular, those workers and economic units in the informal economy are likely to face disproportionate impacts in terms of job and income losses. (Chacaltana, Lee, & Vanhuynegem, 2020). Most of the economic activities are carried out in informal ways in Lahore. Due to which a lot of problems occur for people and also for informal setup. Most of the people associated with informal economy belong to lower middle class and meet their daily needs on daily wages. Majority of the respondents in study area could hardly meet their needs before COVID-19 such as food expenses, education expense, and housing and travel expenses. Also, they face issues because of improper markets space allocated by the concerned authority in the city. The situation became worst during COVID-19. As, to contain the spread of the virus, the government of Pakistan imposed complete lockdown due to which it is difficult to carry out any kind of informal economic activities. During lockdown economic activities were halted because of impaired mobility, shortage of supply and decreased demand. Because of informality and no documentation government faced issues in taking care of lower middle class people. Although government initiated some relief programs to support the informal sector but most of the respondents claimed that those programs did not benefit them. Respondents showed low trust level in the relief measures taken by the government in response to COVID- 19.