Poverty / Inequality

Stitched Up: Poverty wages for garment workers in Eastern Europe and Turkey

A report released in June 2014 by Clean Clothes Campaign shows that garment workers in Eastern Europe and Turkey are paid poverty wages and...

(Re)conceptualizing poverty and informal employment

Note from WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference. 

Género y diferenciales de salarios en la Argentina

Wage Earners, Self-Employment and Gender in the Informal Sector in Turkey

World Bank Policy Research Report on Gender and Development, Working Paper Series, No. 24

Promoting Low-Carbon Transport in India and the Challenges of Social Inclusion: Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Case Studies in India

Delinking and Rethinking Social Protection for Women in Informal Employment? Perspectives from Latin America

In the Latin America region, women in informal employment struggle to gain access to health, old-age pensions or maternity benefits, because...

Time for a New Deal: Social Dialogue and the Informal Economy in Zambia

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The Regularisation of Unauthorized Migrants: Literature Survey and Country Case Studies

Abstract: Regularisation programmes have emerged in the past 25 years or so as one of the mechanisms States use to account for and manage...

One Step Forward or More Window Dressing? A Legal Analysis of Recent CSR Initiatives in the Garment Industry in BangladeshInternational Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations

Abstract: The Bangladesh ready-made garment industry has recently been the scene of a number of major accidents, with the collapse of the...

Domestic workers and Informality: Compliance with DecentWork for Domestic Workers as a Transgression to the Asymmetrical Law of the Home Workplace*

The situation of informality addressed through invisibility and the consequent need to overcome the asymmetrical law of home-based work. ...