Former Visiting Fellow Cátia Batista (associate professor in economics at Portugal’s Universidade Nova de Lisboa) was quoted in an article on The Washington Post titled: Stirrings of Unrest Around the World Could Portend Turmoil as Economies Collapse. This article describes how the poorest countries are at unrest due to the inability of its citizens to work. People are protesting and disregarding social distancing because they have nothing to eat since they are not getting paid. "But it is the world’s poorer nations, which can’t afford subsidies for those who lose jobs, that are most vulnerable to heightened unrest, said Batista. More than 2 billion people worldwide depend on daywork to survive, according to the International Labor Organization, and for many of them, not working often means not eating. If people don’t work, they don’t get paid, and there is a risk of hunger. The natural response is unrest.”