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This study of statistical audit informal economy: an Indonesian case study was undertaken as part of an effort to clarify data- and statistics-related challenges faced in measuring and monitoring the size and trend of the informal economy in Indonesia. The paper provides a useful guide to monitor...
This study was undertaken as part of an effort to draw out policy lessons learnt since the systemic shock triggered by the 1997/98 crisis, to provide a summary evaluation of the existing policy framework to lower informal workers’ vulnerability to economic insecurity, and to highlight the remaining...
Ordinance governing street vending in Santiago, Chile
The book presents some in-depth cases regarding specific informal economic activities in Brazil (waste pickers and street vendors at Porto Alegre, commercial agents and door-to-door sellers at Itapetininga and Nova Friburgo). Using the ethnographic approach, the author shows the social and economic...
Abstract: The economic liberalization policies that started in the early 1980s marked a turn in Turkey’s growth strategy by shifting it from import substitution to export orientation. Since then, the garment industry has been one of the top exporters, drawing on women as the main suppliers of...
Reducing, reusing, and recycling municipal waste is one of the easiest and most effective means of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It also provides gainful employment to millions of people in the developing world, mostly in the informal sector (“wastepickers” 1). Yet rather than supporting these...
Videos / Slideshows / Audio
Millions of women work long hours, in dangerous conditions, for little pay. They are fighting for change, with the help of ILO Convention 189 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers. Watch this video to learn how.
Workers Education/Organizing Materials
This manual helps street vendors learn more about the regulations that govern public space and how to defend the right to work in public space. It describes successful actions taken by street vendor organizations. And it offers information to help you organize and negotiate with local government.
WIEGO Working Papers
Mike Rogan reviews how informal workers are taxed, why there is growing interest in taxing them, and whether they should be included in the tax net.