WIEGO Co-hosts Workshop to Chart New Policy Pathways on Taxation & the Informal Economy in Africa Read More
A data user’s perspective on the new statistical standards on informality: Statistical demands and challenges in WIEGO’s work Read More
Resource DocumentsWaste Pickers During the COVID-19 Crisis: Pathways of Impact and Recovery in Five CitiesKey Findings A year after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, market shifts had exacerbated waste pickers’ structural disadvantages, and... Read More Resource DocumentsDomestic Workers During the COVID-19 Crisis: Pathways of Impact, Recovery and Resilience in Six CitiesKey Findings Domestic workers’ ability to work and earn an income were negatively impacted throughout the pandemic and particularly at the... Read More 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 First Prev ... 4 5 6 ... 15 ... Next Last
Waste Pickers During the COVID-19 Crisis: Pathways of Impact and Recovery in Five CitiesKey Findings A year after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, market shifts had exacerbated waste pickers’ structural disadvantages, and... Read More
Domestic Workers During the COVID-19 Crisis: Pathways of Impact, Recovery and Resilience in Six CitiesKey Findings Domestic workers’ ability to work and earn an income were negatively impacted throughout the pandemic and particularly at the... Read More
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
