The above data can be interpreted using the concepts of economic power and economic relationships. That is, the data imply that respondents hold the view that Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in weakening economic power of informal economy workers in rural and urban districts of Zambia. This is because from the above episodes it vivid that economic power of informal economy workers has shrunk. This is because their businesses have gone down. This is attributed by the respondents to inadequate economic relationships that have arisen between informal economy workers and their clients. Because economic interactions have weakened, informal economy workers are not able to adequately trade and consequently resulting in either decline or death of their economic activities. 3.2.2: Social Impacts Social impacts are also evident in the data collected from both rural and urban districts of Zambia. By social impacts, it means that Covid-19 pandemic has negatively affected the social well-being of all categories of informal economy workers in rural and urban districts of Zambia by limiting their interactions with their work mates, clients, family members and local community members. For instance, during FGD with the Curios Association, social impacts were summarized as follows: “The Curios Association was closed on 27 March as a government measure to prevent spread of Covid-19. Active members used to be 200. But now we only have about 30. 95% of the members are villagers. They just come here to trade and then they go back to the villages in the evening. This is no longer happening. Covid-19 is really impacting on our traditions. Curios is our tradition. When we are together and we work on our curios, we remember our ancestors and culture. However, because we are not able to meet in order to avoid Covid-19, we are being distanced from traditions. We also have no leisure. We cannot go to bars. So there are no social interactions. There is also no informal social protection. We cannot make contributions towards our informal social protection. We cannot ask individual members to make contributions towards their social protection because they are either at home or they don’t have money”. (FGD.1 in rural Zambia). In urban Zambia, similar impacts are also brought out during the fifth FGDs with small farmer’s cooperatives: “Researcher: As farmers, how has Covid -19 affected you? 61