Mexico

The Impact of COVID-19 on Employment in Mexico, 2020-2023

Income floors: Understanding the different policy proposals

The 2020 global pandemic catalyzed great interest in the potential of social protection to support incomes and livelihoods during times of...

The Superheroes of Mexico City

WIEGO’s Tania Espinosa Sánchez and Yuleina Carmona talk about the success of the Lxs Rifadxs campaign in Mexico City, which helped residents...

Did Mexico’s Seguro Popular Universal Health Coverage Programme Really Reduce Formal Jobs?

This Working Paper uses the roll-out of Mexico’s Seguro Popular across municipalities to quantitatively assess its impact on private sector...

Waste Pickers During the COVID-19 Crisis: Pathways of Impact and Recovery in Five Cities

Key Findings A year after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, market shifts had exacerbated waste pickers’ structural disadvantages, and...

Economic Recovery Platform for Workers in Informal Employment in Mexico City

Economic Recovery Platform for Workers in Informal Employment in Mexico City  WIEGO organized a dialogue on economic recovery for the informal...

Milestone Talks on Informal Employment

In their first direct engagement, informal worker representatives and officials of the CNDH’s Program of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights...

International Women’s Day 2022

For International Women’s Day, WIEGO looks at the foundation that women leaders of worker organizations have laid during the pandemic...

Norma Palacios, a domestic worker leader in Mexico City

Norma Palacios is one of the co-founders and leaders of SINACTRAHO, a domestic workers’ union in Mexico that seeks to raise awareness of...

La crisis del COVID-19 y la economía informal en Ciudad de México, México: Impactos persistentes y una agenda para la recuperación