All posts in Poverty / Inequality
Research ReportsGlobalization and the Informal Economy: How Global Trade and Investment Impact on the Working Poor
This paper examines the impact of globalization on those who work in the informal economy, with a special emphasis on women workers and producers. ...
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Challenging Economic Inequality: Tactics and Strategies
Economic and social inequality is a major problem, implicated in poverty, ill health and exploitation. Inequality has increased in many countries...
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The Informal sector in Asia from the Decent Work Perspective
This report is the first of a series of papers that were commissioned under the auspices of the ILO Inter-Sectoral Task Force on the Informal...
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The Micro Political Economy of Gains by Unorganised Workers in India
This review of literature looks at the micro-political mechanisms through which unorganised labour makes gains in wages and conditions of...
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Socio-economic status of workers of building construction industry
Industrialization with the introduction of newly developed technologies plays an important role for development of a country. Building construction...
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Going Nowhere Fast: Limited Occupational Mobility in the Fast Food Industry
Front-line jobs in the fast food industry—including cooks, cashiers, delivery workers, and other non-managerial positions—rank among the...
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Women in Informal Employment: What Do We Know and What Can We Do?
This is a chapter from the publication, “Is Informal Normal? Towards More and Better Jobs in Developing Countries.”
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El empoderamiento de las mujeres: Encuentro del primer y tercer mundos en los estudios de géneroRevista de estudios de género: La ventana
Resumen: Dos conceptos han marcado la producción de la teoría feminista: género y empoderamiento.
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The New Face of Unequal Exchange: Low-Wage Manufacturing, Commodity Chains, and Global Inequality
Political Economy Research Institute Working Paper, No. 59
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Revisiting CEDAW’s Recommendations: Has anything changed for migrant workers in Israel in the last two years?
From the paper’s introduction: “Two years ago, in early 2011, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination...
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