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Resource Documents The Impact of COVID-19 Laws on Street Vendors and Market Traders: Trends and Insights from Latin America This study examines the laws and regulations passed in response to the COVID-19 crisis in Latin America, and their impact on informal vendors,... Read More Resource Documents O Ecossistema de Resíduos: O papel dos catadores e vendedores ambulantes na redução da poluição do litoral durante o carnaval de Salvador da Bahia, Brasil English Thomas, Brittany A., Sonia M. Dias, Cynthia Deng e Mariana Pereira Guimarães. 2021. O Ecossistema de Resíduos: O papel dos catadores... Read More Resource Documents Women Informal Traders and Child Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Findings from Accra, Durban and Nakuru Key Points The public health measures taken to contain the pandemic coupled with the economic slowdown have significantly reduced women informal... Read More Working Papers COVID-19 and Informal Work: Distinct Pathways of Impact and Recovery in 11 Cities Around the World This paper presents findings from a study on the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on informal workers in 11 cities across 5 regions of the world... Read More Statistical Briefs Home-Based Workers in Nepal, 2017/18: A Statistical Profile There are over 1.5 million home-based workers in Nepal who represent 22 per cent of total employment. About 1.01 million of these workers... Read More Resource Documents Ecosystem of Waste: The Role of Waste Pickers and Street Vendors in Curbing Coastal Pollution at Carnaval in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil Read More Policy Briefs The Costs of Insecurity: Domestic Workers’ Access to Social Protection and Services in Dhaka, Bangladesh (Bengali) Domestic workers in Bangladesh carry the heavy cost of inadequate investment in the provision of social protection and services and survey... Read More Law & Informality Insights The “Right to the City” and Emerging Indian Jurisprudence: Implications for Informal Livelihoods Read More Statistical Briefs Home-Based Workers in the World: A Statistical Profile This brief presents key indicators on home-based workers and their work across the world. Globally, 260 million women and men produce goods... Read More Policy Briefs Informal Work in South Africa and COVID-19: Gendered Impacts and Priority Interventions In South Africa, informal workers in general, and women informal workers in particular, have been disproportionately hard hit by measures... Read More First Prev ... 8 9 10 ... 19 ... Next Last
The Impact of COVID-19 Laws on Street Vendors and Market Traders: Trends and Insights from Latin America This study examines the laws and regulations passed in response to the COVID-19 crisis in Latin America, and their impact on informal vendors,... Read More
O Ecossistema de Resíduos: O papel dos catadores e vendedores ambulantes na redução da poluição do litoral durante o carnaval de Salvador da Bahia, Brasil English Thomas, Brittany A., Sonia M. Dias, Cynthia Deng e Mariana Pereira Guimarães. 2021. O Ecossistema de Resíduos: O papel dos catadores... Read More
Women Informal Traders and Child Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Findings from Accra, Durban and Nakuru Key Points The public health measures taken to contain the pandemic coupled with the economic slowdown have significantly reduced women informal... Read More
COVID-19 and Informal Work: Distinct Pathways of Impact and Recovery in 11 Cities Around the World This paper presents findings from a study on the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on informal workers in 11 cities across 5 regions of the world... Read More
Home-Based Workers in Nepal, 2017/18: A Statistical Profile There are over 1.5 million home-based workers in Nepal who represent 22 per cent of total employment. About 1.01 million of these workers... Read More
Ecosystem of Waste: The Role of Waste Pickers and Street Vendors in Curbing Coastal Pollution at Carnaval in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil Read More
The Costs of Insecurity: Domestic Workers’ Access to Social Protection and Services in Dhaka, Bangladesh (Bengali) Domestic workers in Bangladesh carry the heavy cost of inadequate investment in the provision of social protection and services and survey... Read More
The “Right to the City” and Emerging Indian Jurisprudence: Implications for Informal Livelihoods Read More
Home-Based Workers in the World: A Statistical Profile This brief presents key indicators on home-based workers and their work across the world. Globally, 260 million women and men produce goods... Read More
Informal Work in South Africa and COVID-19: Gendered Impacts and Priority Interventions In South Africa, informal workers in general, and women informal workers in particular, have been disproportionately hard hit by measures... Read More
