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  • Resource Documents

    No Place for Street Vendors: Global Capital and Local Exclusion in an East Asian Immigrant Enclave of New York City

    The survey on which this Resource Document is based shows that, for many people in the New York City neighbourhood of Flushing, a good neighbourhood...

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  • Impact of COVID-19 on Street Vendors in India Post
    COVID-19 Crisis Study July 21, 2020

    Impact of COVID-19 on Street Vendors in India: Status and Steps for Advocacy

    By: Avi Singh Majithia July 2020 Photo credit: Rashmi Choudhary The lockdown in Delhi came down harshly on street vendors, as it did for...

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  • Informal worker Iris Lamiorkor runs a snack stand at Kwame Nkrumah Circle Market. Unlike other vendors who sell during the day Page

    Social Protection Briefing Notes

    WIEGO has produced a series of briefs to analyze the Social Protection Responses to COVID-19, drawing from WIEGO’s database of social...

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  • Portrait of Marty Chen, WIEGO Senior Advisor News
    COVID-19 Crisis Study July 21, 2020

    Marty Chen in IDS Webinar on Informal Workers: What Can Be Done

    WIEGO Senior Advisor Marty Chen recently participated in an Institute of Development Studies webinar, “The COVID-19 crisis facing informal...

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  • The Informal Economy Revisited by Chen and Carre book Cover News
    Future of Work July 14, 2020

    The Informal Economy Revisited – landmark book in open access

    This open-access book, edited by Martha Chen and Françoise Carré, brings together leading scholars to investigate recent conceptual shifts,...

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  • Advocacy Materials

    Informal Workers in the COVID-19 Crisis: A global picture of sudden impact and long-term risk

    In an immediate response to COVID-19, WIEGO conducted a rapid assessment to understand how the pandemic and the related public health measures...

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  • Street vendors in Accra Post
    COVID-19 Crisis Study July 06, 2020

    Pour les vendeuse·eur·s de rue du monde entier, la vie pourrait ne plus jamais être la même après la COVID-19

    Les personnes vendeuses de rue fournissent des services essentiels dans les villes du monde entier, en particulier en Afrique, en Asie et...

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  • Street vendors in Accra Post
    COVID-19 Crisis Study July 02, 2020

    La vida de las vendedoras y vendedores ambulantes del mundo puede cambiar para siempre después de la COVID-19

    Las personas vendedoras ambulantes brindan servicios esenciales en ciudades de todo el mundo, especialmente en África, Asia y América del...

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  • Policy/Position Documents

    WIEGO Network Platform – Hindi

    वैिश्वक अथर्व्यवस्था में अनौपचािरक श्रिमक संगठन सभी स्तरों पर सरकारों को इस दौरान जमीनी स्तर पर उभरने वाले राहत प्रयासों पर हमारे साथ भागीदार...

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  • Advocacy Materials

    ZCIEA Press Statement on the re-opening of the informal sector in Zimbabwe

    President of Zimbabwe has said that informal sector enterprises can operate “on condition they register with their authorities first,...

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