New Book Sheds Light on Urban Regulations and Their Impact on Workers in Informal Employment Read More
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Research ReportsAll on Board: Making Inclusive Growth HappenFrom the Executive Summary: “Inclusive Growth, which is a new approach to economic growth that aims to improve living standards and... Read More Research ReportsEnterprise formalization: Fact or fiction? A quest for case studiesBackground from the paper: “Governments across the world try to reduce the size of the informal sector, because of many negative aspects... Read More Statistical BriefsMeasurement of Employment-Related Income: Concepts, Data Sources and a Test of MethodsThis brief aims at reviewing the possibility of measuring income from employment with existing sources, in particular, assessing the feasibility... Read More Research ReportsPolitics, informality and clientelism – exploring a pro-poor urban politicsAbstract: This paper explores what we have learnt about how to instigate, negotiate or otherwise secure pro-poor government in towns and... Read More Research ReportsPossible Choices, Valuable Meanings: an Overview of the Activities of Brazilian Recyclable Materials PickersRecyclable materials pickers have been sorting through garbage and transforming it into usable commodities for a long time in many places... Read More Research ReportsRoadmap for Tunisian Leadership: Integrating the Informal EconomyThe roadmap addresses the economic exclusion of informal workers in Tunisia and presents strategies for incorporating the informal sector... Read More Policy BriefsVending in Public Space: The Case of BangkokThis brief reviews cultural, economic, political and other broad social foundations of vending in Bangkok’s public space. It also examines... Read More Journal ArticlesDisempowerment from Below: Informal Enterprise Networks and the Limits of Political Voice in NigeriaOxford Development StudiesAbstract: Decentralized governance has enjoyed limited success in promoting popular livelihoods and political voice among informal actors.... Read More Research ReportsCity Report – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Home-Based Workers in Ahmedabad, IndiaIn Ahmedabad, WIEGO partnered with the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) to carry out this study. This report outlines key findings... Read More Research ReportsCity Report – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Waste Pickers in Pune, India Read More First Prev ... 49 ... 58 59 60 ... 69 ... Next Last
All on Board: Making Inclusive Growth HappenFrom the Executive Summary: “Inclusive Growth, which is a new approach to economic growth that aims to improve living standards and... Read More
Enterprise formalization: Fact or fiction? A quest for case studiesBackground from the paper: “Governments across the world try to reduce the size of the informal sector, because of many negative aspects... Read More
Measurement of Employment-Related Income: Concepts, Data Sources and a Test of MethodsThis brief aims at reviewing the possibility of measuring income from employment with existing sources, in particular, assessing the feasibility... Read More
Politics, informality and clientelism – exploring a pro-poor urban politicsAbstract: This paper explores what we have learnt about how to instigate, negotiate or otherwise secure pro-poor government in towns and... Read More
Possible Choices, Valuable Meanings: an Overview of the Activities of Brazilian Recyclable Materials PickersRecyclable materials pickers have been sorting through garbage and transforming it into usable commodities for a long time in many places... Read More
Roadmap for Tunisian Leadership: Integrating the Informal EconomyThe roadmap addresses the economic exclusion of informal workers in Tunisia and presents strategies for incorporating the informal sector... Read More
Vending in Public Space: The Case of BangkokThis brief reviews cultural, economic, political and other broad social foundations of vending in Bangkok’s public space. It also examines... Read More
Disempowerment from Below: Informal Enterprise Networks and the Limits of Political Voice in NigeriaOxford Development StudiesAbstract: Decentralized governance has enjoyed limited success in promoting popular livelihoods and political voice among informal actors.... Read More
City Report – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Home-Based Workers in Ahmedabad, IndiaIn Ahmedabad, WIEGO partnered with the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) to carry out this study. This report outlines key findings... Read More
