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Social Policy and Employment: Rebuilding the Connections This brief points to the inappropriate decoupling of social policy from employment objectives and outlines their intrinsic links. It argues... Read More
The Spatial Reproduction of Urban PovertyEconomic & Political Weekly This article highlights, from the vantage point of workers in the resettlement colony, how the restructuring processes of large formal sector... Read More
Not to be Taken for Granted: What Informal Waste Pickers Offer the Urban Economy WIEGO Waste Sector Specialist Sonia Dias argues for a holistic approach to solid waste management that recognises the economic and environmental... Read More
Health and Sanitation is an Economic Right as Well–Just Ask Ghanaian Food Sellers WIEGO Researcher Laura Alfers investigates the chop bar owners of Accra. Whereas governments are quick to scapegoat them for diseases borne... Read More
Estimating the Causal Effect of Enforcement on Minimum Wage Compliance: The Case of South AfricaReview of Development Economics This article is included in a special issue of the journal which includes 11 articles focused on informality. Read More
Facing the Facts: Acknowledging the informal economy in anti-poverty policies and services Most people who work informally are forced to do so to make ends meet rather than out of a desire to cheat the system. Yet by working in... Read More
Firing Regulations and Firm Size in the Developing World: Evidence from Differential EnforcementReview of Development Economics This article is included in a special issue of the journal which includes 11 articles focused on informality. Read More
Firm Heterogeneity, Informal Wage and Good GovernanceReview of Development Economics This article is included in a special issue of the journal which includes 11 articles focused on informality. Read More
