How Recyclers and Vendors in New York City are Challenging Big Money to Build a Better City for Working People Read More
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ການປັບປຸງການເຂົ້າເຖິງປະກັນສັງຄົມສຳຫລັບຜູ້ທຳງານຢູ່ເຮືອນໃນນະຄອນຫຼວງວຽງຈັນ ສປປ ລາວ – WIEGO Policy Brief No. 32. Read More
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Resource DocumentsHome-Based Workers’ Access to Social Protection: Lessons Learned from the IDPoor Programme in CambodiaThis joint WIEGO and HomeNet Cambodia study adds to the limited research on home-based workers and their access to social-protection programmes... Read More Organizing BriefsThe Journey from “Factories in Homes” to Legal Recognition and Rights for Home-Based Workers in PakistanThis brief discusses the struggle of home-based workers in Pakistan to realize the rights enshrined in the Sindh Home-Based Workers Act of... Read More Working PapersTight Tax Net, Loose Safety Net: Taxation and Social Protection in Accra’s Informal SectorWhile debates about taxation and social protection in relation to the informal economy are widespread, there is little empirical evidence... Read More Resource DocumentsNew Forms of Social Insurance: The Case of the TUC–UNIWA Informal Sector Pension Scheme in GhanaThe TUC–UNIWA Informal Sector Pension Scheme was established in Ghana in 2017 by the Union of Informal Workers Associations (UNIWA) as a... Read More Resource DocumentsHome-Based Work during the COVID-19 Crisis: Pathways of Impact and Recovery in Five CitiesIn both mid-2020 and mid-2021, WIEGO assessed the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on specific groups of informal workers and their households,... Read More BriefsA regional approach to Universal Social Protection: The case of the African Union Protocol Read More Policy BriefsClaiming Space for Informal Work in Master Planning: Reflections from a People’s Campaign in DelhiMaster plans across the Global South tend to reflect Eurocentric, modernist city visions that are disconnected from the lived reality of... Read More Statistical BriefsInformal Workers in Brazil: A Statistical ProfileThis brief examines data on employment in Brazil from 2012, 2019 and 2020, with a focus on five groups of workers who are mainly informal. ... Read More Law & Informality InsightsA Chain is as Strong as its Weakest Link: Strategies for International Supply Chain Legislation to Include HomeworkersThis publication – A Chain is as Strong as its Weakest Link: Strategies for International Supply Chain Legislation to Include Homeworkers... Read More Resource DocumentsThe Struggle for the Soul of Bhadra Chowk – A Heritage Plaza or Heritage Market? A Case Study from Ahmedabad, IndiaThis case study documents the history of the struggle by street vendors, with SEWA’s support, to retain their right to vend – and their natural... Read More First Prev ... 4 5 6 ... 15 ... Next Last
Home-Based Workers’ Access to Social Protection: Lessons Learned from the IDPoor Programme in CambodiaThis joint WIEGO and HomeNet Cambodia study adds to the limited research on home-based workers and their access to social-protection programmes... Read More
The Journey from “Factories in Homes” to Legal Recognition and Rights for Home-Based Workers in PakistanThis brief discusses the struggle of home-based workers in Pakistan to realize the rights enshrined in the Sindh Home-Based Workers Act of... Read More
Tight Tax Net, Loose Safety Net: Taxation and Social Protection in Accra’s Informal SectorWhile debates about taxation and social protection in relation to the informal economy are widespread, there is little empirical evidence... Read More
New Forms of Social Insurance: The Case of the TUC–UNIWA Informal Sector Pension Scheme in GhanaThe TUC–UNIWA Informal Sector Pension Scheme was established in Ghana in 2017 by the Union of Informal Workers Associations (UNIWA) as a... Read More
Home-Based Work during the COVID-19 Crisis: Pathways of Impact and Recovery in Five CitiesIn both mid-2020 and mid-2021, WIEGO assessed the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on specific groups of informal workers and their households,... Read More
Claiming Space for Informal Work in Master Planning: Reflections from a People’s Campaign in DelhiMaster plans across the Global South tend to reflect Eurocentric, modernist city visions that are disconnected from the lived reality of... Read More
Informal Workers in Brazil: A Statistical ProfileThis brief examines data on employment in Brazil from 2012, 2019 and 2020, with a focus on five groups of workers who are mainly informal. ... Read More
A Chain is as Strong as its Weakest Link: Strategies for International Supply Chain Legislation to Include HomeworkersThis publication – A Chain is as Strong as its Weakest Link: Strategies for International Supply Chain Legislation to Include Homeworkers... Read More
The Struggle for the Soul of Bhadra Chowk – A Heritage Plaza or Heritage Market? A Case Study from Ahmedabad, IndiaThis case study documents the history of the struggle by street vendors, with SEWA’s support, to retain their right to vend – and their natural... Read More
