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ການປັບປຸງການເຂົ້າເຖິງປະກັນສັງຄົມສຳຫລັບຜູ້ທຳງານຢູ່ເຮືອນໃນນະຄອນຫຼວງວຽງຈັນ ສປປ ລາວ – WIEGO Policy Brief No. 32. Read More
Informational ArticleChallenges of Gathering Statistics on Street VendorsFinding reliable data on the size of the street vending population in any given city can be challenging. Official statistics on street vendors... Read More Informational ArticleSupport to Informal Workers During & After Economic CrisesDuring economic crises, the poor are seen as targets for social assistance or social safety nets. But the working poor, especially those... Read More Informational ArticleHierarchies of Earnings and PovertyDiagrams reveal a hierarchy of earnings and poverty risk across various segments of the labour force. Average earnings are lower and the... Read More Informational ArticleLinks with Poverty: Earlier FindingsThis page summarizes findings from several earlier sets of country-level data analyses that considered the average earnings and/or the poverty... Read More Informational ArticleLinks with Poverty: Data SourcesAll of the data for the UNIFEM-WIEGO studies were from the late 1990s and early 2000s. The data sources and years for the five countries... Read More Informational ArticleRavi Kanbur: A-B-C-D FrameworkIn 2009, Ravi Kanbur, Professor of Economics at Cornell University, posited a conceptual framework for distinguishing between four types... Read More Informational ArticleWIEGO Network: Holistic FrameworkComposition Six-Segment Model by Status of Employment In the International Classification of Status of Employment, five statuses of employment –... Read More Informational ArticleWorld Bank: A Holistic FrameworkIn 2007, the Latin America division of the World Bank brought out a publication entitled Informality: Exit and Exclusion co-authored by Guillermo... Read More Informational ArticleRatifications of the Home Work Convention (C177)It’s has been more than two decades since the adoption of ILO’s Home Work Convention (C177) of 1996, but only 10 countries have... Read More Informational ArticleSocial Protection for Informal WorkersThese basic facts are at the core of WIEGO’s work around social protection. Informal is normal. Informal employment accounts for the... Read More 1 2 3 Next Last
Challenges of Gathering Statistics on Street VendorsFinding reliable data on the size of the street vending population in any given city can be challenging. Official statistics on street vendors... Read More
Support to Informal Workers During & After Economic CrisesDuring economic crises, the poor are seen as targets for social assistance or social safety nets. But the working poor, especially those... Read More
Hierarchies of Earnings and PovertyDiagrams reveal a hierarchy of earnings and poverty risk across various segments of the labour force. Average earnings are lower and the... Read More
Links with Poverty: Earlier FindingsThis page summarizes findings from several earlier sets of country-level data analyses that considered the average earnings and/or the poverty... Read More
Links with Poverty: Data SourcesAll of the data for the UNIFEM-WIEGO studies were from the late 1990s and early 2000s. The data sources and years for the five countries... Read More
Ravi Kanbur: A-B-C-D FrameworkIn 2009, Ravi Kanbur, Professor of Economics at Cornell University, posited a conceptual framework for distinguishing between four types... Read More
WIEGO Network: Holistic FrameworkComposition Six-Segment Model by Status of Employment In the International Classification of Status of Employment, five statuses of employment –... Read More
World Bank: A Holistic FrameworkIn 2007, the Latin America division of the World Bank brought out a publication entitled Informality: Exit and Exclusion co-authored by Guillermo... Read More
Ratifications of the Home Work Convention (C177)It’s has been more than two decades since the adoption of ILO’s Home Work Convention (C177) of 1996, but only 10 countries have... Read More
Social Protection for Informal WorkersThese basic facts are at the core of WIEGO’s work around social protection. Informal is normal. Informal employment accounts for the... Read More
