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Budget Briefs Budgeting and the Informal Economy in Lilongwe, Malawi In 2013, 89 per cent of Malawi’s 5.5 million employed people were informally employed. Informal economy budget analysis (IEBA) explores the... Read More Technical Briefs Waste Incineration and Informal Livelihoods: A Technical Guide on Waste-to-Energy Initiatives This brief provides waste picker organizations, policymakers and practitioners with information about waste-to-energy initiatives, and solid... Read More Resource Documents Literature Survey: Mega-Events and the Working Poor, with a Special Reference to the 2010 FIFA World Cup This literature survey draws together and synthesizes research that has been done on mega events, with a particular focus on the 2010 World... Read More Law & Informality Insights Turning the Law into a Shield for Street Vendors in African Countries This Legal Brief compares the Civil Law and Common Law systems to explore the recourses and remedies street vendors may have to to defend... Read More Working Papers Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Brazil and Belo Horizonte This paper provides an analysis of government budgets related to specific groups of informal workers in Belo Horizonte, the capital of the... Read More Working Papers Statistics on the Informal Economy: Definitions, Regional Estimates & Challenges This working paper offers new regional estimates on informal employment based on direct measures from 40 countries and indirect measures... Read More Policy Briefs India’s National Policy on Urban Street Vendors India is one of very few countries to have developed a National Policy on Urban Street Vendors. Adopted in 2004, its objective is to promote... Read More Policy Briefs Integrating Occupational Health into Public Health Provision: The Case of HomeNet Thailand HomeNet Thailand (HNT) has long advocated for the integration of Occupational Safety & Health (OSH) into the Thai Universal Coverage... Read More Statistical Briefs Statistics on Informal Employment in Kenya This brief summarizes statistics on employment – and, in particular, on urban informal employment – in Kenya. Read More Statistical Briefs Informal Workers in Urban South Africa: A Statistical Snapshot This brief offers details of the urban informal workers in South Africa’s metros, with a further focus on three cities. Read More First Prev ... 2 ... 11 12 13 ... 22 ... Next Last
Budgeting and the Informal Economy in Lilongwe, Malawi In 2013, 89 per cent of Malawi’s 5.5 million employed people were informally employed. Informal economy budget analysis (IEBA) explores the... Read More
Waste Incineration and Informal Livelihoods: A Technical Guide on Waste-to-Energy Initiatives This brief provides waste picker organizations, policymakers and practitioners with information about waste-to-energy initiatives, and solid... Read More
Literature Survey: Mega-Events and the Working Poor, with a Special Reference to the 2010 FIFA World Cup This literature survey draws together and synthesizes research that has been done on mega events, with a particular focus on the 2010 World... Read More
Turning the Law into a Shield for Street Vendors in African Countries This Legal Brief compares the Civil Law and Common Law systems to explore the recourses and remedies street vendors may have to to defend... Read More
Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Brazil and Belo Horizonte This paper provides an analysis of government budgets related to specific groups of informal workers in Belo Horizonte, the capital of the... Read More
Statistics on the Informal Economy: Definitions, Regional Estimates & Challenges This working paper offers new regional estimates on informal employment based on direct measures from 40 countries and indirect measures... Read More
India’s National Policy on Urban Street Vendors India is one of very few countries to have developed a National Policy on Urban Street Vendors. Adopted in 2004, its objective is to promote... Read More
Integrating Occupational Health into Public Health Provision: The Case of HomeNet Thailand HomeNet Thailand (HNT) has long advocated for the integration of Occupational Safety & Health (OSH) into the Thai Universal Coverage... Read More
Statistics on Informal Employment in Kenya This brief summarizes statistics on employment – and, in particular, on urban informal employment – in Kenya. Read More
Informal Workers in Urban South Africa: A Statistical Snapshot This brief offers details of the urban informal workers in South Africa’s metros, with a further focus on three cities. Read More
