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  • Statistical Briefs

    Home-Based Workers in India: A Statistical Profile

    This statistical snapshot of India’s home-based workers offers data on the size of this workforce, age, sex, type of industry and more. Data...

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  • Informal worker in Myanmar - January 2013 - Photo by Marty Chen Informational Article

    Challenges of Gathering Statistics on Street Vendors

    Finding reliable data on the size of the street vending population in any given city can be challenging. Official statistics on street vendors...

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  • Statistical Briefs

    Informal Workers in Ghana: A Statistical Snapshot

    This brief details recent data on informal workers in Greater Accra, urban Ghana and Ghana overall, and looks at the data:

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  • Journal Articles

    Gendered inequalities in the South African informal economy

    In this article in Agenda, WIEGO’s Michael Rogan and Laura Alfers examine sources of gender inequality within the South African informal...

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  • IMF banner Nov 2019 News
    Statistics November 25, 2019

    WIEGO Makes the Case for Distinguishing between the Informal Economy and Underground and Illegal Production

    Marty Chen, Senior Advisor for WIEGO, was among the experts on the informal economy who spoke at the 7th IMF Statistical Forum, highlighting...

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  • Domestic worker in Joburg, South Africa Post
    Statistics November 05, 2019

    City-level statistical snapshots for South Africa and Thailand available for the first time

    WIEGO’s Statistics Programme is launching a new set of Statistical Briefs that provide key indicators of informal employment and key...

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  • Databases

    City Level Statistics on the Informal Workers

    This table (Excel spreadsheet) contains the data WIEGO commissioned on informal employment and its workers in 19 cities. WIEGO now produces...

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  • Measuring Social Change book cover News
    Statistics October 01, 2019

    WIEGO Statistics Programme an example in book Measuring Social Change

    The WIEGO Statistics Programme is featured in a recently published book by Alnoor Ebrahim. Ebrahim examines an “emergent strategy”...

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  • Home-based worker and street vendor in Bangkok 2015 Statistical Briefs

    Informal Workers in Urban Thailand: A Statistical Snapshot

    This brief contains estimates on informal workers in Bangkok and other urban centres in Thailand.

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Measuring Social Change: Performance and Accountability in a Complex World

    The social sector is undergoing a major transformation. We are witnessing an explosion in efforts to deliver social change, a burgeoning...

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