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Statistical Briefs

Workers in Informal Employment in El Salvador: A Statistical Profile, 2019-2021

This brief examines data on employment in El Salvador for 2019 to 2021 and analyzes the changes in employment.

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Law & Informality Insights

Waste Pickers and Human Rights in Latin America

This edition of Law & Informality Insights describes WIEGO’s strategies to articulate the working conditions of waste pickers as human...

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Briefs

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...

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A human-powered vehicle called ‘Zorro’. Credit: Federico Parra, 2016

Statistical Briefs

The Collection of Data on Waste Pickers in Colombia, 2012-2022

This brief describes the unprecedented census of waste pickers that took place in 2012 in Bogota, as mandated by rulings of the Constitutional...

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Petrona Flores sells poultry at the Mercado San José in Lima

Statistical Briefs

Informal Workers in Peru: A Statistical Profile, 2015–2021

This brief examines data on employment in Peru from 2015, 2019, 2020 and 2021, and analyzes the changes in employment brought by the COVID-19...

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Law & Informality Insights

Defending Waste Pickers’ Livelihoods: Lessons from Litigation in Latin America

Waste pickers have won several legal actions in Latin America over the past two decades. This edition looks at the lessons learned.

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Street vendor in Salvadore, Brazil

Statistical Briefs

Pessoas em emprego informal no Brasil: Um perfil estatístico

Pessoas trabalhadoras do Brasil, pessoas trabalhadoras domésticas do Brasil, pessoas catadoras de recicláveis brasileiras, COVID-19 no Brasil. ...

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Organizing Briefs

The Journey from “Factories in Homes” to Legal Recognition and Rights for Home-Based Workers in Pakistan

This brief discusses the struggle of home-based workers in Pakistan to realize the rights enshrined in the Sindh Home-Based Workers Act of...

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Briefs

A regional approach to Universal Social Protection: The case of the African Union Protocol

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Policy Briefs

Claiming Space for Informal Work in Master Planning: Reflections from a People’s Campaign in Delhi

Master plans across the Global South tend to reflect Eurocentric, modernist city visions that are disconnected from the lived reality of...

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