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The WIEGO Blog is where WIEGO specialists, partners and allies share their knowledge and perspectives to facilitate informed conversations about the informal economy.
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Homeworkers’ Rights at Risk with EU Directive Uncertainty
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Key Outcomes from the 2025 International Labour Conference and Why They Matter for Workers in Informal Employment
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Growing a Dream: The Vaal Park Recycling Centre
The sign at the entrance to the Vaal Park Recycling Centre in South Africa bears 23 logos, each representing a public or private partner...
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The New Urban Agenda must prompt planners to recognize informal labour
Urban informal workers represent the broad base of the urban economy in most developing countries. On average, these account for well over...
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La Nueva Agenda Urbana debe incitar a los planificadores a reconocer el trabajo informal
Los trabajadores en empleo informal tuvieron importantes logros en 2015, pero éstos deben ser consolidados en Hábitat III.
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Trabajadores en empleo informal en el Perú presentan sus demandas y propuestas a partidos políticos
By Olga Abizaid
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Informal Workers in Peru Present Their Demands and Proposals to Political Parties
More than 140 informal worker leaders from Lima and other cities in Peru gathered in November to create a common platform of demands and...
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Trabajo y desarrollo humano: Entrevista con Nohra Padilla sobre la experiencia de los recicladores en Bogotá
Foto: Juan Arredondo/Getty Images Reportage
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Work and Human Development: A Q&A with Nohra Padilla on the Experience of Waste Pickers in Bogota
Photo: Juan Arredondo/Getty Images Reportage
This year’s Human Development Report, the United Nations Development Programme’s flagship publication,...
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Four Lessons from Thailand’s Participatory Process in Gaining Universal Health Coverage
By Laura Alfers and Francie Lund
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Cuatro lecciones del proceso participativo de Tailandia para obtener cobertura sanitaria universal
Por Laura Alfers y Francie Lund
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Pope Francis, the environment, and waste pickers
By Tania Espinosa Sánchez
Pope Francis has made the environment and the poor a top priority since assuming his massively influential position...
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