Fiscal Justice

WIEGO joins call for IMF to stop promoting austerity measures in the COVID-19 recovery period

We, the undersigned, call on the IMF to immediately stop promoting austerity around the world, and instead advocate policies that advance...

Tax Justice and the Informal Economy: A Review of the Debates

Mike Rogan reviews how informal workers are taxed, why there is growing interest in taxing them, and whether they should be included in the...

Gendered inequalities in the South African informal economy

In this article in Agenda, WIEGO’s Michael Rogan and Laura Alfers examine sources of gender inequality within the South African informal...

Workers’ rights in informal economies

A growing movement is helping improve lives and livelihoods for the world’s informal workers, Sally Roever explains in this Open Democracy...

OpEd: South Africa’s Informal Sector Creates Jobs

WIEGO’s Michael Rogan and Caroline Skinner wrote an OpEd in The Conversation shedding light on the realities of South Africa’s...

The Informal Sector in Jinja, Uganda: Implications of Formalization and Regulation

Informality in Africa: A Review

This paper examines the realities of informal employment in sub-Saharan Africa, where a significant proportion of employment activity and...

Untapped Enterprise: Learning to Live with the Informal Economy

From the Report:

The Viability of Informal Micro-enterprise in South Africa

Global Wage Report 2012/13: Wages and Equitable Growth (Chinese)

The Global Wage Report 2012/13 looks at differences in wages around the globe and how they have been influenced by the economic crisis. It...