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Legal and Policy Tools to Meet Informal Workers Demands: Lessons from India This brief draws on a two-year Indian study detailing how legal and policy tools have been used or can be used to address the diverse concerns... Read More
Organizing on the Streets: A Study of Reclaimers in the Streets of Cape Town This brief is part of the WIEGO Publication Series. View list of all WIEGO briefs. Read More
Mixed-Use Zoning and Home-Based Production in India This technical brief critically assesses land-use zoning regulations, both generally and specifically in India, with particular reference... Read More
Housing Finance for Poor Working Women: Innovations of the Self-Employed Women’s Association in India The Self-Employed Womens Association (SEWA) of India recognizes that the home is a paramount productive asset, especially for poor women.... Read More
Budgeting and the Informal Economy in Accra, Ghana About 86 per cent of Ghanaian workers work in the informal economy but together they earn only 40 per cent of national income. This is because... Read More
Measurement of Employment-Related Income: Concepts, Data Sources and a Test of Methods This brief aims at reviewing the possibility of measuring income from employment with existing sources, in particular, assessing the feasibility... Read More
Using the Right to Information in the Informal Economy: A How-To Guide This practical guide outlines how the right to information, a right that is broadly recognized in international law and in most countries... Read More
Options for Organizing Waste Pickers in South Africa This brief is part of the WIEGO Publication Series. View list of all WIEGO briefs. Read More
How to Analyse Government Budgets from an Informal Economy Perspective Budget analysis is a powerful policy analysis tool. This technical brief provides a guide to conducting an informal economy budget analysis... Read More
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
