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    COVID-19 Crisis Study May 26, 2020

    Informal workers can help stop COVID-19 infection spread in Peru and throughout Latin America

      Despite the troubling and false narrative that has taken hold in Peru and is spreading across Latin America about the role of informal...

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  • Home-based worker and street vendor in Bangkok 2015 Statistical Briefs

    Informal Workers in Urban Thailand: A Statistical Snapshot

    This brief contains estimates on informal workers in Bangkok and other urban centres in Thailand.

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  • Workers in the informal economy from six different sectors. A Domestic Worker, a Garment Worker, a Home-Based Worker, a Street Vendors / Market Trader, a Transport Worker, and a Waste Picker. News
    Legal Empowerment September 22, 2019

    Mexico City Recognizes the Rights of Informal Waste Pickers

    On July 15th 2016, Mexico City’s Human Rights Commission (CDHDF) issued Recommendation 7/2016, named “Omissions in Mexico City’s urban solid...

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  • Budget Briefs

    Budgeting and the Informal Economy in Accra, Ghana

    About 86 per cent of Ghanaian workers work in the informal economy but together they earn only 40 per cent of national income. This is because...

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  • Resource Documents

    If Street Food Disappears — Projecting the Cost for Consumers in Bangkok

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  • Research Reports

    Recomendações para Políticas – Estudo de Monitoramento da Economia Informal – Catadores de Belo Horizonte: Catadores de Belo Horizonte: Realidades e Recomendações

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  • Budget Briefs

    Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Peru and Metropolitan Lima

      This brief is part of the WIEGO Publication Series.   View list of all WIEGO briefs.

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  • Organizing Briefs

    Organising Street Vendors: “Gente de Confiar” Radio Progamme, Lima, Peru

    An authentically democratic community requires open channels of communication between citizens. Street markets offer a natural setting for...

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  • Organizing Briefs

    Street Vendors Organising: The Case of the Women’s Network (Red de Mujeres), Lima, Peru

    This Briefing Note describes the background, objectives, activities and achievements of the Women’s Network as an example of better practice...

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  • Resource Documents

    Perceptions of Costs and Benefits of Informal-Formal Linkages: Market and Street Vendors in Accra, Ghana

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