Arab States

Invisible Workers, Visible Contribution. A Study of Home Based Workers in Five Sectors across South Asia

Background paper presented at Regional Policy Seminar on Women Workers in the Informal Sector in South Asia: Creating an Enabling Policy...

Statistical Study of Home-Based Workers in Pakistan

This study quantifies the trends in the population of HBWs in Pakistan, by urban/rural, province and gender, and also analyzes the last 10...

Neoliberal policies and informal labor in the Arab region

This paper was produced as a contribution to the 2016 Arab Watch Report on Economic and Social Rights, which focused on informal labor in...

Industrialization and New Forms of Employment in Tunisia

Wages and Bottlenecks: Home-Based Work and Factory System in Istanbul

Paper from the International Conference on Globalization and Its Discontents, SUNY Cortland, 2007

Informal Labor in Arab Countries

This paper was produced as a contribution to the 2016 Arab Watch Report on Economic and Social Rights, which focused on informal labor in...

The Informal Sector in Waste Recycling in Egypt

Presupuesto y Economía Informal en Brasil, Pakistán, Perú y las Filipinas

Este documento reúne resultados de cuatro estudios de países sobre el análisis presupuestario de la economía informal.

Informality, Employment and Economic Development in the Arab World

From the abstract:

Informal economy and labour market policies and institutions in selected Mediterranean countries: Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Algeria and Morocco