Ο ρόλος των Διεθνών Οργανισμών στην καταπολέμηση των κοινωνικών ανισοτήτων κατά τη διάρκεια της πανδημίας του COVID-19

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to critically examine the way in which the pandemic of COVID-19 has influenced a set of social inequalities regarding access to healthcare, the position in the labor market, sex, age and the state of developing countries. We do this by studying principally the reaction, in terms of analyzing the situation and making policy-proposals, of four international organizations, that is, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the International Labor Organisation (ILO), the World Bank and the European Union. The working assumption guiding our research is that the ongoing pandemic has intensified the already-present social inequalities, thereby pushing to an even harder place the ones who already suffered the most, that is, the low-paid workers or the working poor, employees with low skills and/or working in the informal sector, women, the young and ethnic minorities. In the case of developing countries, the above-mentioned inequalities are augmented. The paper concludes with an examination of the way the above social inequalities appear in Greece and the response of the Greek state vis-à-vis the crisis caused by the pandemic.