Announcing “Formalizing the Informal Economy”: A Webinar Series Towards the 2025 International Labour Conference Read More
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A data user’s perspective on the new statistical standards on informality: Statistical demands and challenges in WIEGO’s work Read More
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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... Read More
Support to Informal Workers During & After Economic Crises During 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 Poverty Diagrams 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 Findings This 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 Sources All 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 Framework In 2009, Ravi Kanbur, Professor of Economics at Cornell University, posited a conceptual framework for distinguishing between four types... Read More
WIEGO Network: Holistic Framework Composition 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 Framework In 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 Workers These basic facts are at the core of WIEGO’s work around social protection. Informal is normal. Informal employment accounts for the... Read More
