Public and Workplace Services

Reassembling Social Security: A Survey of Pensions and Health Care Reforms in Latin America

‘Good jobs’ and hidden costs: Women workers documenting the price of precarious employmentGender and Development

Summary:This article describes the precarious terms and conditions of employment experienced by millions of women working in global supply...

Occupational Injuries in Ghana

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...