History, Debate and Theory

Social Security for the Informal Sector: Investigating the Feasibility of Pilot Projects in Benin, India, El Salvador and Tanzania

Women Street Traders in Urban South Africa: A Synthesis of Selected Research Findings

Centre for Social and Development Studies (CSDS) Research Report, No. 15

The Urban Informal Sector: Concept, Measurement and Policy

Criminalising the Livelihoods of the Poor: The impact of formalising informal trading on female and migrant traders in Durban

According to the author’s of this report, the policy of the eThekwini Municipality in South Africa on informal economy, encompassing informal...

Market-based and Rights-based Approaches to the Informal Economy: A Comparative Analysis of the Policy Implications

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Trade and Employment in Services: The Case of Indonesia

This study examines the importance of the services sector and its linkages with other sectors in terms of value-added and employment from...

Securing Livelihoods: Informal Economy Practices and Institutions

Far from the vision of popular actors in the popular economy as reactionary and archaic, stubbornly resisting any move towards change, this...

Informal Labor in Arab Countries

This paper was produced as a contribution to the 2016 Arab Watch Report on Economic and Social Rights, which focused on informal labor in...

The Politics of Urban Space in Mumbai: 'Citizens' versus the Urban Poor

Working People and Access To Social Protection