Amid austerity and aid cuts, workers need to deepen their understanding of domestic financing of social protection Read More
Announcing “Formalizing the Informal Economy”: A Webinar Series Towards the 2025 International Labour Conference Read More
WIEGO Co-organizes Workshops on Promoting Health Justice and Systems Change for Workers in Informal Employment in Brazil and India Read More
A data user’s perspective on the new statistical standards on informality: Statistical demands and challenges in WIEGO’s work Read More
Working Papers Informal Economy Budget Analysis: eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality WIEGO’s Informal Economy Budget Analysis (IEBA) examines how government budgets address the needs and interests of different groups of informal... Read More Research Reports Informal Tradables and the Employment Growth of Indian Manufacturing Abstract: India’s manufacturing growth from 1989 to 2010 displays two intriguing properties: 1) a substantial fraction of absolute and net... Read More Journal Articles Reducing InformalityFinance and Development “…reducing informality is often seen as a central objective of tax reform. But precise definitions of informality, as set out... Read More Journal Articles Peeling the Onion: Social Regulation of the Onion Market, Nangarhar, AfghanistanEconomic and Political Weekly Afghanistan’s hope that market-driven agriculture will ensure its economic transformation demonstrates a wilful disregard of the links... Read More Books & Book Chapters The Urban Imperative Towards Competitive Cities From the OUP website: “The volume emphasizes the need to rethink cities and to imagine a better urban future by providing the reader... Read More Books & Book Chapters Urbanization and (In)Formalization Read More Journal Articles Beyond urban vulnerability: interrogating the social sustainability of a livelihood in the informal economy of Nigerian cities. Aba is a politically volatile, economically vibrant but environmentally poor city that is a microcosm of social conditions in the Nigerian... Read More Books & Book Chapters The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America Synopsis: By 2035, 11.5 million Americans will be over the age of eighty-five, more than double todays 5 million, living longer than ever... Read More Research Reports Fighting Their Own Battles: The Mabarete and the End of Labour Broking in the South African Post Office This working paper outlines how casual workers ended labour broking in the South African Postal Office (SAPO). There is now acute awareness... Read More Working Papers Forging a New Conceptualization of “The Public” in Waste Management The involvement of informal workers in municipal service delivery is generally theorized and studied as a key component of a neoliberal privatization... Read More First Prev ... 43 ... 52 53 54 ... 63 ... Next Last
Informal Economy Budget Analysis: eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality WIEGO’s Informal Economy Budget Analysis (IEBA) examines how government budgets address the needs and interests of different groups of informal... Read More
Informal Tradables and the Employment Growth of Indian Manufacturing Abstract: India’s manufacturing growth from 1989 to 2010 displays two intriguing properties: 1) a substantial fraction of absolute and net... Read More
Reducing InformalityFinance and Development “…reducing informality is often seen as a central objective of tax reform. But precise definitions of informality, as set out... Read More
Peeling the Onion: Social Regulation of the Onion Market, Nangarhar, AfghanistanEconomic and Political Weekly Afghanistan’s hope that market-driven agriculture will ensure its economic transformation demonstrates a wilful disregard of the links... Read More
The Urban Imperative Towards Competitive Cities From the OUP website: “The volume emphasizes the need to rethink cities and to imagine a better urban future by providing the reader... Read More
Beyond urban vulnerability: interrogating the social sustainability of a livelihood in the informal economy of Nigerian cities. Aba is a politically volatile, economically vibrant but environmentally poor city that is a microcosm of social conditions in the Nigerian... Read More
The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America Synopsis: By 2035, 11.5 million Americans will be over the age of eighty-five, more than double todays 5 million, living longer than ever... Read More
Fighting Their Own Battles: The Mabarete and the End of Labour Broking in the South African Post Office This working paper outlines how casual workers ended labour broking in the South African Postal Office (SAPO). There is now acute awareness... Read More
Forging a New Conceptualization of “The Public” in Waste Management The involvement of informal workers in municipal service delivery is generally theorized and studied as a key component of a neoliberal privatization... Read More
