Links with Economic Growth/Crisis

Urban Informal Workers: Representative Voice & Economic Rights

Background Paper for 2013 World Development Report on Jobs    

Enfrentando a Crise: Recessão Persistente,Inflação Crescente, e a Força de Trabalho Informal (Sumário Executivo)

Report available in English here. Relatório disponível em português aqui. Informe disponible en español aquí.  

Globalization, Free Trade, and the Social Impact of the Decline of Informal Production: The Case of Artisans in Quito, Ecuador

In the context of globalization and policies to promote free trade on an international scale, this paper discusses what has happened to...

The Informal Economy and Workers in Nepal

This report marks an important point in debates about Nepal’s informal economy. For the first time, the significance of the informal economy...

Informality in the process of development and growth

Abstract: “Informality” is a term used to describe the collection of firms, workers, and activities that operate outside the...

Chains of Fortune: Linking Women Producers and Workers with Global Markets

Measuring Vulnerability: Who Suffered in the 1995 Mexican Crisis?

Globalization, Labour Markets and Social Outcomes in Developing Countries

Reddy, Sanjay G., Globalisation, Labour Markets, and Social Outcomes in Developing Countries (November 2006). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=942087...

Informalization, Economic Growth and the Challenge of Creating Viable Labor Standards in Developing Countries

Political Economy Research Institute Working Paper Series, No. 60

Identity Economics: Social Networks and the Informal Economy in Nigeria