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This paper examines the impact of globalization on those who work in the informal economy, with a special emphasis on women workers and producers.
World Bank Policy Research Report on Gender and Development, Working Paper Series, No. 24
Resumen: Dos conceptos han marcado la producción de la teoría feminista: género y empoderamiento. El primero tiene su origen en pensadoras del primer mundo y el segundo representa un encuentro de éstas con sus colegas del tercer mundo.En el campo de los estudios de género el empoderamiento es tal...
The relationship between informality and poverty, inequality, and economic growth is complex. This section of the website explores what is known about these relationships. Links with Poverty There is significant overlap between working in the informal economy and being poor. This sub-section...
Not all informal workers are poor and not all working poor are engaged in the informal economy — but there is significant overlap between informality and poverty. This page details what is known about the relationship between working in the informal economy and being poor, based on analyses of...
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Some years ago, the world embraced biodiversity. Today, the world needs to also embrace economic diversity — a hybrid economic model that allows the smallest units and least powerful workers to operate alongside the largest units and most powerful economic players. Both are needed for sustainable...
All of the data for the UNIFEM-WIEGO studies were from the late 1990s and early 2000s. The data sources and years for the five countries were as follows: Egypt: ELMS 1998 and the Micro and Small Enterprise Survey (MSE) 2003 El Salvador: Encuesta de Hogares de Propositos Multiples (EHPM) 2003 South...
The inequalities between those at the base of the economic pyramid and those at the tip can be traced through nested layers of inequality: between capital and labour, between formal and informal workers, between different groups of informal workers — and between women and men at each level. In today...
Diagrams reveal a hierarchy of earnings and poverty risk across various segments of the labour force. Average earnings are lower and the risk of poverty is higher among all women workers in the informal economy compared to all men workers within the informal economy.
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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.