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
Journal Articles Bringing Back Social ForestryEconomic and Political Weekly India’s social forestry programme promised much in the late-1970s and mid-1980s. It became the programme to be emulated for many developing... Read More Journal Articles Rethinking Gender and Waste: Exploratory Findings from Participatory Action Research in Brazil This article focuses on how women waste pickers identify and deal with hierarchical gender relations. Based on findings from an exploratory... Read More Journal Articles The Efficiency of Informality: Quantifying Greenhouse Gas Reductions from Informal Recycling in Bogotá, Colombia Abstract: The dual challenges of increasing urbanization and consumption are centered in cities in the Global South, where growing waste... Read More Journal Articles Monographic Section: India’s informal capitalism and its regulation – IntroductionInternational Review of Sociology The papers included in this section of the International Review of Sociology explore the nature and working of India’s informal economy. ... Read More Journal Articles The e-waste conundrum: Balancing evidence from the North and on-the-ground developing countries’ realities for improved managementAfrican Review of Economics and Finance Abstract from African Review of Economics and Finance: E-waste is currently the fastest-growing waste stream, posing major global management... Read More Journal Articles Home-Based Workers and Cities This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO. Abstract: This paper explores the impact of local government... Read More Journal Articles Africa’s World Trade: Informal Economies and Globalization from Below. Are Africa’s world markets really contributing to development across the continent for individuals, nations and regions? This is the... Read More Journal Articles Informality Across the Global Economy – Subsistence, Avoidance and Violation The table of contents with descriptions is available on the ILO website and all journal articles are available on the journal’s website. ... Read More Journal Articles The confounding influence of urban informality on innovation and production specialisation in production clusters: evidence from Nairobi Abstract: This paper investigates two agglomeration economies, innovation and production specialisation, within Nairobi’s handicraft... Read More Journal Articles Childcare from the perspective of women informal workers Early Childhood Matters aims to elevate key issues, spread awareness of promising solutions to support holistic child development and explore... Read More First Prev ... 2 ... 11 12 13 ... 22 ... Next Last
Bringing Back Social ForestryEconomic and Political Weekly India’s social forestry programme promised much in the late-1970s and mid-1980s. It became the programme to be emulated for many developing... Read More
Rethinking Gender and Waste: Exploratory Findings from Participatory Action Research in Brazil This article focuses on how women waste pickers identify and deal with hierarchical gender relations. Based on findings from an exploratory... Read More
The Efficiency of Informality: Quantifying Greenhouse Gas Reductions from Informal Recycling in Bogotá, Colombia Abstract: The dual challenges of increasing urbanization and consumption are centered in cities in the Global South, where growing waste... Read More
Monographic Section: India’s informal capitalism and its regulation – IntroductionInternational Review of Sociology The papers included in this section of the International Review of Sociology explore the nature and working of India’s informal economy. ... Read More
The e-waste conundrum: Balancing evidence from the North and on-the-ground developing countries’ realities for improved managementAfrican Review of Economics and Finance Abstract from African Review of Economics and Finance: E-waste is currently the fastest-growing waste stream, posing major global management... Read More
Home-Based Workers and Cities This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO. Abstract: This paper explores the impact of local government... Read More
Africa’s World Trade: Informal Economies and Globalization from Below. Are Africa’s world markets really contributing to development across the continent for individuals, nations and regions? This is the... Read More
Informality Across the Global Economy – Subsistence, Avoidance and Violation The table of contents with descriptions is available on the ILO website and all journal articles are available on the journal’s website. ... Read More
The confounding influence of urban informality on innovation and production specialisation in production clusters: evidence from Nairobi Abstract: This paper investigates two agglomeration economies, innovation and production specialisation, within Nairobi’s handicraft... Read More
Childcare from the perspective of women informal workers Early Childhood Matters aims to elevate key issues, spread awareness of promising solutions to support holistic child development and explore... Read More
