Fiscal Justice

Navigating Inflation: Impacts of the Cost-of-Living Crisis on Workers in Informal Employment in Accra, Ghana

This booklet shows how the cost-of-living crisis is affecting workers in informal employment in Accra, Ghana. It draws on exploratory research...

Monotax and Social Monotax in Uruguay

The report –produced in collaboration between the Women in Informal Employment: Globalising and Organising (WIEGO) network and the International...

แบกปัญหา หาบภาระ : ผลกระทบวิกฤตค่าครองชีพต่อแรงงานนอกระบบในกรุงเทพมหานคร

ข้อมูลจากงานวิจัยเชิงคุณภาพ ในรายงานสรุปและข้อเสนอแนะเชิงนโยบาย แสดงให้เห็นถึงผลกระทบของวิกฤตค่าครองชีพที่มีต่อแรงงานนอกระบบในกรุงเทพมหานคร...

Does Social Protection Cause Informality? A Critical Review of the Literature on the Relationship between Social Protection, Formal and Informal Employment

Several influential international organizations, academic studies and reports claim that social protection is an important driver of informality....

‘ฉันต้องการได้รับการคุ้มครอง’: ประสบการณ์และมุมมองของแรงงานนอกระบบต่อการประกันสังคมในประเทศไทย – WIEGO Policy Brief No. 31

How the Cost-of-Living Crisis Hurts Workers in Informal Employment in Bangkok, Thailand

The cost-of-living crisis is affecting workers in informal employment in Bangkok in many ways, including forcing their households to cut...

Shouldering the Burden: Impacts of the Cost-of-Living Crisis on Workers in Informal Employment in Bangkok, Thailand

The qualitative data collected in this Policy Brief show how the cost-of-living crisis is affecting workers in informal employment in Bangkok....

The Creation of Sustainable Cities Shouldn’t be Paid for by the Working Poor

Financing a sustainable urban future requires governments to shift their focus from taxing the informal economy to providing urban infrastructure,...

Challenges and strategies to increase social protection financing for workers in informal employment

This briefing note reviews the current debates about strategies to increase financing for social protection, which is essentially to enable...

Income floors: Understanding the different policy proposals

The 2020 global pandemic catalyzed great interest in the potential of social protection to support incomes and livelihoods during times of...