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About WIEGO
About WIEGO - Main Page
Defining Features
WIEGO Constitution Adopted October 2005 (PDF)
Grassroots Movements as Transnational Actors: Implications for Global Civil Society, Srilatha Batliwala (PDF)
    
Who We Are
Who We Are - Main Page
WIEGO Steering Committee
WIEGO Secretariat
WIEGO Individual and Institutional Members
 
Program Areas
Program Areas - Main Page
Latin American Regional Workshop on Statistics in the Informal Economy
         
Program Area: Global Markets
WIEGO - Global Markets - Main Page
Globalization and Economic Reform as Seen From the Ground: SEWA's Experience in India (PDF)
WIEGO - Global Markets: Women's Trade Center
Chains of Fortune: Linking Women Producers and Workers With Global Markets (PDF)
Research Partners and Collaborations
Africa Regional Workshop on Food Processing and Minor Forest Product Global Value Chains (MS Word)
Introductory Paper For The Africa Regional Workshop on Informal Workers/Producers in Food and Forest Commodity Chains (MS Word)
Garment Workers Report - En Español (MS Word)
From Local to Global and Informal to Formal - Entering Mainstream Markets (PDF)
Globalization and Rural Food Processing by Andean Women of Peru and Bolivia (PDF)
         
Program Area: Organization and Representation
WIEGO - Organization and Representation - Main Page
Organising in the Taxi Industry: The South African Experience (PDF)
Organizing in the Informal Economy: A Case Study of the Clothing Industry in South Africa (PDF)
Organising the Unorganised: A Case Study of the Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari
Panchayat (Trade Union of Waste-pickers) (PDF)
The ILO Home Work Convention, Ten Years Later - Jan 2007 (PDF)
Organizing in the Informal Economy: A Case Study of the Building Industry in South Africa (PDF)
Organizing in South Africa's Informal Economy: An Overview of Four Sectoral Case Studies (PDF)
Street Traders and Their Organisations in South Africa (PDF)
ICC Ghana, Conclusions - Sept 2006 (PDF)
Reporte del Taller Latinoamericano Retos de Trabajadores de la Economia Informal - Abril 2003
Workers in the Informal Economy: Platform of Issues, International Labour Conference - June 2002
SWACHH: Alliance of Wastepickers in India - March 2005 (MS Word)
Conference Paper on Domestic Workers and Recommendations (PDF)
Combining our Efforts: Organising for Decent Work in the Informal Economy: The Way out of Poverty, ICC, Senegal - Nov 2005 (PDF)
Participant List, ICC Senegal - 2005 (PDF)
Report of the International Co-ordinating Committee (I.C.C.) on Organising Workers in the Informal Economy, Geneva - June 2004 (PDF)
Participant List, Geneva - June 2004 (PDF)
Horn Paper (PDF) - FILE NOT FOUND
Rapport Paper on Domestic Workers (PDF) - FILE NOT FOUND
Homebased Workers, Jones - Jan 2007 (PDF)
           
Program Area: Organization and Representation: Database
Database Questionnaire (MS Word) - FILE NOT FOUND
Database Questionnaire en Espanol (MS Word)
Database Questionnaire en Francais (MS Word)
Database Questionnaire - Portuguese (MS Word)
Organization Profiles for web - Alphabetical
Organization Profiles for web - Africa
Organization Profiles for web - Asia
Organization Profiles for web - Europe
Organization Profiles for web - Latin America
Organization Profiles for web - North America
Strategy Structure export for web
Domestic Workers combined
         
Program Area: Social Protection
WIEGO - Social Protection - Main Page
Crowding in Care, Security and Microenterprise Formation:
Revisiting the role of the state in poverty reduction and in development (PDF)
Advocacy Tools, Urdu Version (PDF) - FILE NOT FOUND
Working Women and Security: Self Employed Women's Association's response to crisis (PDF)
Homenet Thailand and WIEGO: Asia Social Protection Dialogue Bangkok, 2004 - Summary Report (MS Word)
Discussion about Social Protection for Workers in the Informal Economy, San Jose, Costa Rica - August 2003 (MS Word)
Social Protection for Women in the Informal Economy - Dec. 1999 (PDF)
         
Program Area: Statistics
WIEGO - Statistics - Main Page
WIEGO Statistics Planning Meeting, June 2002
Note on Concepts and Techniques for Estimating the Contribution of Women Working in the Informal Sector (MS Word)
Homeworkers and the Home-Based Workers (PDF)
         
Program Area: Urban Policies
WIEGO - Urban Policies
Hawkers and the Urban Informal Sector, Bhowmik (PDF) - FILE NOT FOUND
ILO Stats Booklet (PDF) - FILE NOT FOUND
Latin American Regional Workshop on Street Vendors - 2002
         
Program Areas: General Activities
WIEGO - Programme Areas: General Activities
              
Program Areas: General Activities: China-India (Public)
Informality, Poverty, and Growth: Labour Markets in China and India, Research Design Workshop- April 2007
China - India Visit - February 2007, Report (PDF)
Participant List (MS Word)
Agenda (MS Word)
Project Activities (MS Word)
Harvard Workshop Report - May 2007 (MS Word)
                        
Program Areas: General Activities: China-India (Public): Presentations, Day 1
Background Presentation: Informality, poverty and growth: Labour markets in China and India (PDF)
The Informal Economy: New Definition and Recent Trends, Marty Chen (PDF)
China and India: A Brief Comparative Overview (PDF)
Labour Market in India (PDF)
Labor Market Reform and Employment Restructuring in China (PDF)
National statistics: Sources and methods (PDF)
Data analysis of informal employment in China and India (PDF)
                        
Program Areas: General Activities: China-India (Public): Presentations, Day 2
Discussion on India, Harriss-White (PDF)
Discussion on Informality, Poverty, and Growth: The Labour Force in China and India, Chen (PDF)
Subsector, Value Chain and Occupational Case Studies: Past Studies and Lessons Learned (PDF)
A Study on Domestic Services Industry in Shanghai (PDF)
Traditional Herbal Medicine Sector, China (PDF)
Findings from studies of HBW in sub contracted manufacturing (PDF)
Research and Action at SEWA (PDF)
Informality, Poverty and Growth: Labour Markets in China and India - Discussant notes (PDF)
Policy, Legal and Institutional Environment for China's Informal Workers
Legislation to Protect Workers in the Informal Economy in India (PDF)
    
Publications
Publications - Main Page
wiego promo (PDF)
99report (PDF)
May2000 Annual Report (PDF)
Publications About WIEGO
Publications by WIEGO
Publications by WIEGO Members
Women and Men in the Informal Economy (PDF)
UNIFEM: Progress of the World's Women - 2005 (PDF)
Cohen with Bhatt and Horn: Women St Vendors SEEDS (PDF)
Jhabvala: Tate Out of the Shadows (PDF)
Gothoskar: New Initiatives in organizing strategy in the informal economy, India (PDF)
Gothoskar New initiatives in organizing strategy in the informal economy, Appendicies (PDF)
Gothoskar New initiatives in organizing strategy in the informal economy Summary (PDF)
Mather: Out of the Shadows from IUR (PDF)
Mainstreaming Informal Employment and Gender in Poverty Reduction
Batliwala Seminarart When Rights Go Wrong (PDF)
Chen: Final Business Environment and the Informal Economy (PDF)
Chen: The Business Environment and the Informal Economy: Creating Conditions For Poverty Reduction, Presentation, Cairo (PDF)
AIMS Study of SEWA Bank (MS Word)
AIMS Study of SEWA Bank - Executive Brief (MS Word)
Devenish and Skinner Organizing Workers in the Informal Economy (PDF)
devey skinner valodia Informal Economy employment data in ZA (PDF)
Skinner Constraints to Growth and Employment in Durban (MS Word)
Gordon abstract Transnational Labor Citizenship (PDF)
Heintz Globalization econ policy and employment - poverty and gender implications (PDF)
Heintz - Elements of an Employment Framework for Poverty Reduction in Ghana (PDF)
Heintz - The New Face of Unequal Exchange - Low Wage Manufacturing Commodity Chains and Global Inequality (PDF)
Heintz - Global Labor Standards -their impact and implementation (PDF)
Heintz and Pollin - Informalization Economic Growth and the Challenge of Creating Viable Labor Standards in Dvpg Countries (PDF)
Hunter Skinner Foreign Street Traders Working in Inner City Durban (PDF)
lund- people working informally (PDF)
Lund Ardington Kwamsane Risk Management (PDF)
Tools For Advocacy (PDF)
mitullah - street trade in kenya contribution of research in policy dialogue (PDF)
Pape Homework Globalization paper FES Bangladesh (PDF)
Pape Karin Informal Economy and Trade Unions in Germany (PDF)
Pape Karin Informal Economy and Trade Unions in Germany GERMAN (PDF)
publications/Roever Street Trade in LAC (PDF)
Valodia Devey Skinner state of the informal economy (PDF)
mujeres en la economia informal (PDF)
WIEGO-AnnualReport 2006 (PDF)
Addressing Informality, Reducing Poverty: A Policy Response to the Informal Economy (PDF)
Lund and Srinivas: Learning from Experience (PDF)
Chen and Carr: Women Workers in the Informal Sector in South Asia: Creating an Enabling Environment, Regional Policy Seminar - October 2000 (PDF)
Krause REPORTE INE CHILE.rtf
POK SECTOR INFORMAL Doc (MS Word)
UNNI India Case Study for ILO stats book (PDF)
         
Publications: 2002 Meeting Report
2002 Meeting Report - Front Cover (PDF)
Introduction (PDF)
Table of Contents (PDF)
pp. 6-13 (PDF)
pp. 14-21 (PDF)
pp. 22-29 (PDF)
pp. 30-37 (PDF)
pp. 38-43 (PDF)
annex 1 (PDF)
annex 2 (PDF)
annex 3 (PDF)
annex 4 (PDF)
annex 5 (PDF)
annex 7 (PDF)
Back cover (PDF)
         
Publications: Chains of Fortune Chapters
Barrientos Kritzinger Rossouw Natl Labour Leg in an Informal Context - horticulture in ZA (PDF)
Cretney and Tafuna'i Virgin Coconut Oil in Samoa (PDF)
Kabeer and Mahmud Export Oriented Garment Manu in Bangladesh (PDF)
Kanji Vijfhuizen Braga Artur Cashing in on Cashew Nuts (PDF)
Mitter Fernandez Varghese Women Call Centre Workers in India (PDF)
Page The Trade Policy Context (PDF)
Tiffen MacDonald Maamah Osei-Opare Cocoa Farmers in Ghana (PDF)
         
Publications: EPW
Chen Vanek Heintz Informality Gender and Poverty (PDF)
Kantor Rani Unni Decent Work Deficits in Informal Economy - case of Surat (PDF)
Sharma Flexibility Employment and Labour Market Reforms in India (PDF)
              
Publications: EPW: Non WIEGO Articles
Anjaria Street Hawkers and Public Space in Mumbai (PDF)
Hisam Collective Care Arrangements in the Informal Labour Mkt - Road Transport workers in Pakistan (PDF)
Mitra Labour Market Mobility of Low Income Households (PDF)
Noronha and d'cruz organizing call centre agents - emerging issues (PDF)
Sakthivel and Joddar Unorganised Sector Workforce in India (PDF)
         
Publications: PWW
Close up - Occupational Groups (PDF) - FILE NOT FOUND
A Causal Model of the Informal Economy (PDF) - FILE NOT FOUND
Chapter 4 PoWW2005 eng-2 (PDF) - FILE NOT FOUND
Chapter 6 PoWW2005 eng-3 (PDF) - FILE NOT FOUND
         
Publications: SEWA Membership
Table of Contents (PDF)
Part 1 (PDF)
Part 2 (PDF)
Part3 (PDF)
Part4 (PDF)
Part5 (PDF)
              
Publications: SEWA Membership:Extracts
Waste Pickers section (PDF)
         
Publications: Street Trade
Front matter (PDF)
Introduction (PDF)
Chapter 1 (PDF)
Chapter 2 (PDF)
Chapter 3 (PDF)
Chapter 4 (PDF)
Appendicies (PDF)
         
Publications: Subsector Studies
SUB GROUP CASE STUDY STREET VENDORS (PDF)
SUB GROUP CASE STUDY HOMEBASED WORK (PDF)
         
Publications: UNIFEM
UNIFEM's Progress of the World's Women 2005
    
Papers
Baden (PDF)
1101asiastatement (PDF)
1001africaplatform (PDF)
Geneva report (MS Word)
Geneva report (PDF)
1101asiareport (PDF)
1101asiareport2 (PDF)
lareport12-10 (MS Word)
WIEGO Stats Planning Meeting Report (MS Word)
WIEGO Stats Planning Meeting Report (PDF)
Charmes7 (MS Word)
Charmes7 (PDF)
Charmes3 (MS Word)
Charmes3 (PDF)
Charmes (MS Word)
Charmes (PDF)
WIEGO - Report Release of the World Bank on Gender Disparities in Transition Countries
         
Papers: Street vendors
Great Cities, Great Markets Conference
         
Papers: 2005/ 8 pages
Glovackas (MS Word)
European meeting (PDF)
WIEGO ILC flyer front (PDF)
WIEGO ILC flyer back (PDF)
AhmedabadConfReport (PDF)
ILC02PlatforM (PDF)
Aryeetey Poverty Reduction Strategy Ghana (PDF)
Heintz Elements Employment Poverty Reduction Ghana (PDF)
              
Papers: 2005: UNIFEM
8 Chen Sebstad OConnell Counting Invis Workforce (PDF)
1 Adato Ahmed Lund Linking safetynets SP poverty reduction (PDF)
3 Money Power Work Elaben Oct02 (PDF)
4 Bhowmik Asian Hawkers EPW (PDF)
5 Chen WIDER paper (PDF)
6 Chen Impact SEWA (PDF)
531 martha alter chen (PDF)
good jobs bad jobs no jobs (PDF)
10 ILO WP Globalization Informal Economy Chen Carr (PDF)
11 ILO WP Chen Jhabvala Lund (PDF)
12 chen jhabvala nanavaty investment climate female informal firms (PDF)
Membership-Based Organizing of Poor Women: Reflections After an Exposure and Dialogue Program with SEWA In Gujarat, India - January 2005 (PDF)
Reality and Analysis: Personal and Technical Reflections on the Working Lives of Six Women, Exposure and Dialogue Program - 2004 (PDF)
17 Gallin Propositions Trade Unions Informal Economy (PDF)
15 Inf Econ NAmerica May2001 HTUP (PDF)
16 Organizing Inf Workers Oct 2001 HTUP (PDF)
18 Horn WIDER paper (PDF)
19 ILO Stats booklet (PDF)
Integrating informal economy planning gov (PDF)
21 lund skinner SA durban case study (PDF)
22 McCormack Schmitz Manual GVC Garment Sector (PDF)
23 Mitullah A REVIEW STREET TRADE (PDF)
24 Mitullah Streetvending African Cities (PDF)
25 Nanavaty WIDER paper (PDF)
26 Skinner Valodia Informalising the Formal (PDF)
27 Unni WIDER paper (PDF)
28 Vosko Decent work (PDF)
29 ILO WP 10 IS SubSaharan Africa Horn (PDF)
January June 2005 (PDF)
              
Papers: 2005: WIEGO
WIEGO Promotional Material (PDF)
WIEGO ILC flyer - front (PDF)
WIEGO ILC flyer - back (PDF)
    
News
News and Events
StreetNet Coordinator Deported from Zimbabwe
Urban Policies Colloquium
Youth Employment Document (MS Word)
         
News: Announcements
WIEGO - Announcements
Waste Pickers Conference Announcement, Bogota, Colombia, March 2008
Book Announcement: Routledge Publishes Membership Based Organizations of the Poor
WIEGO Authors Contribute to Economic and Political Weekly special issue, "A Review of Labour"
Call for Papers: Labor Markets in Developing and Transition Economies: Emerging Policy and Analytical Issues
An International Conference Organized by Cornell University/International Policy Center (Ford School, Michigan)
Ann Arbor, May 25-27, 2007
WIEGO - SEWA Under Attack
WIEGO - SEWA Bajo Ataque
WIEGO Produces Two Books for Commonwealth Secretariat
SEWA Court Victory
              
News: Announcements: Domestic Workers Conference 2006
About the conference
Conference Announcement (PDF)
              
News: Announcements: KSG Graduation 2006
Ela Bhatt at Graduation Ceremony
Ela Bhatt's Commencement Speech (PDF)
Ela Bhatt at KSG Graduation - Photos
         
News: Archive
WIEGO - World News Articles
WIEGO - Report Releas of the World Bank on Gender Disparities in Transition Countries
From North-South to South-South
Women in Informal Employment Globalizing and Organizing
Women in Informal Employment Globalizing and Organizing
Jan 6
November 29, 2001 NY TIMES
REVENUE SHARING, ANYONE
November 19, 2001
Reich Article
Nov 6
Service Layoffs Hit Immigrants Hard
         
News: E-Newsletters
July - December 2007
July - December 2007 (PDF)
January - June 2007
July - December 2006
January - June 2006
July - December 2005 (MS Word)
January - December 2004 (MS Word)
July - December 2003 (MS Word)
January - July 2003 (MS Word)
January - December 2002 (MS Word)
              
News: E-Newsletters: 2006
Socio-Economic Status Of Construction Workers In Delhi- A Study (PDF)
Survey Report for Animal Husbandry (PDF)
Survey Report on Horticulture (PDF)
Improving Quality of Life of Informal Workers Through Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Program - Homenet Thailand (PDF)
Report on Homenet Southeast Asia's Subregional Workshop on Fair Trade and Marketing (PDF)
World Class Cities for All - Challenge to Municipalities, South African Launch (PDF)
Abstract on Transnational Labor Citizenship (PDF)
Batliwala Seminar - When Rights Go Wrong (PDF)
              
News: E-Newsletters: 2007
WIEGO E-newsletter, January - June 2007
         
News: Events
WIEGO General Assembly
WIEGO Urban Policies Colloquium
WIEGO - Recent Events
SEWA/UNIFEM Conference on Homebased Workers
WIEGO - The Informal Economy in Ghana: A Comparative Perspective
Urban Policies Colloquium Concept Note - Feb. 16 2006 (PDF)
Durban UPC Presentations
Agenda October 24 Seminar (PDF)
Institutional Structure - April 11 (PDF)
              
News: Events: Ahmedabad - International Conference - 2005
Member-based Organizations of the Poor (MBOP)
Cornell/SEWA/EDP/WIEGO International Conference - Home page
Program (PDF)
Logistical Information (PDF)

List of Conference Papers

              
News: Events: General Assembly Event, Durban - 2006
General Assembly Report - Main Page
Session Materials and Presentations
WIEGO Durban GA UPC Poem (PDF)
WIE GO Song (PDF)
General Assembly Programme (PDF)
WIEGO General Assembly Photo Album
Dan speech (Durban) (PDF)
Ela Bhatt's welcome address (PDF)
Preparations for Programme Discussions (PDF)
Constitution of WIEGO - adopted Oct 2005 (MS Word)
Press Coverage
Report from General Assembly Statistics Discussion Group (MS Word)
Report from General Assembly Social Protection Discussion Group (MS Word)
              
News: Events: UPC Event - 2006
Final programme (MS Word)
Bhatt: Cities are People (PDF)
Bikombo: Migrant Workers in ZA (PDF) - FILE NOT FOUND
Mabuyakhulu Challenges of Policy implementation (PDF) - FILE NOT FOUND
Elvis Nkandu AZIEA UPC (PDF) - FILE NOT FOUND
         
News: News:
News - Main Page
WIEGO Joins ETI
Jhabvala SEWA Speech At ITUC (PDF)
         
News: News Articles
WIEGO - News Articles
         
News: Reports
WIEGO - Report Releases
    
Contact
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The Informal Economy

 
    
About the Informal Economy
About The Informal Economy
Definitions and Theories of the Informal Economy
Causes and Consequences of The Informal Economy
Policy Debates and Responses to The Informal Economy
About the Informal Economy: Conceptual Framework
Old and New View on The Informal Economy
Informal Economy: Hidden Costs of Informal Employment
Informal Economy: Links between poverty, gender and informality
    
Statistical Picture
A Statistical Picture of The Informal Economy
    
Occupational Groups
WIEGO - Major Occupational Groups
WIEGO - Major Occupational Groups: Key Occupations by Place of Work
         
Occupational Groups: Waste Collectors
Waste Collectors - Main Page
Medina Informal Recycling in Developing Countries (PDF)
achankeng Globalization Urbanization and MSW Mgmt in Africa (PDF)
SEEDS19 Girls of the Maqattam Garbage Settlement (PDF)
Bjerkli Cycle of Plastic Waste Analysis of Informal Recover in Addis Ethiopia (PDF)
Medina Scavenger Cooperatives in Asia and LAC (PDF)
BKAM LABOUR DAY 2007 Press Release (PDF)
Medina Informal Recycling Group
da Silva Fassa Kriebel brazil ragpickers mental health (PDF)
Dias WASTE AND CITIZENSHIP FORUMS (PDF)
Dias Waste and Citizenship (MS Word)
Wilson Velis Cheeseman Informal Sector Waste (PDF)
    
Publications of Interest
Publications of Interest - Main Page
ILO Online Yemen en (MS Word)
ILO Online Yemen fr (MS Word)
ILO Online Yemen es (MS Word)
ILO Online Philippines en (MS Word)
ILO Online Philippines fr (MS Word)
ILO Online Philippines sp (MS Word)
Palmi Stitching for Survival Homebased Clothing in Informal Economy (PDF)
    
Resources
Resources - Main Page
Academic & Research Institutions
Labor Organizations and NGOs with Explicit Labor Focus
Non Governmental
Inter-Governmental Organizations
Online Libraries and Databases
En Espanol
         
Resources: Links
Links
         
Resources: Materials Notes
Materials Notes - Main Page
Bhowmik: Informal Sector Syllabus (PDF)

 

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