Public and Workplace Services

One-Eyed Science: Occupational Health and Women Workers

Extending Labour Law to All Workers: Promoting Decent Work in the Informal Economy in Cambodia, Thailand and Mongolia

Health Insurance in India: The Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana

This policy brief explores the challenges faced by India’s poor workers in using the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), the largest...

Reading the Signposts: Social Protection for Home Based Women Workers in South Asia

Health Risks and Informal Employment in South Africa: Does Formality Protect Health?International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health

The association between work and health has not been well explored in the context of economically developing countries, largely due to inadequate...

The Political Economy of Social Policy and Social Security in Sub-Saharan Africa

Editorial: Urban livelihoods: reframing theory and policy

This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO. This paper, which also serves as an introduction to this...

Childcare from the perspective of women informal workers

Early Childhood Matters aims to elevate key issues, spread awareness of promising solutions to support holistic child development and explore...

Economic Recovery Assessment: Sierra Leone

Evidence from a recent assessment by Mercy Corps of economic recovery assessment in Sierra Leone showed that youth and petty traders were...

Decent work, decent life for domestic workers ITUC