Theme: Fiscal Justice

Tax Justice and the Informal Economy: A Review of the Debates

Mike Rogan reviews how informal workers are taxed, why there is growing interest in taxing them, and whether they should be included in the...

Coronavirus & Waste Pickers: Decreasing the Risks

Poster/Graphic WIEGO’s Cuidar Project in Brazil focuses on understanding the health risks waste pickers face in the workplace.  To support...

Gendered inequalities in the South African informal economy

In this article in Agenda, WIEGO’s Michael Rogan and Laura Alfers examine sources of gender inequality within the South African informal...

Workers’ rights in informal economies

A growing movement is helping improve lives and livelihoods for the world’s informal workers, Sally Roever explains in this Open Democracy...

Informal Economy Budget Analysis for Lilongwe City in Malawi – Resource Document 13

OpEd: South Africa’s Informal Sector Creates Jobs

WIEGO’s Michael Rogan and Caroline Skinner wrote an OpEd in The Conversation shedding light on the realities of South Africa’s...

Budgeting and the Informal Economy in Lilongwe, Malawi

In 2013, 89 per cent of Malawi’s 5.5 million employed people were informally employed. Informal economy budget analysis (IEBA) explores the...

Working Paper 15: Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Brazil and Belo Horizonte

This paper provides an analysis of government budgets related to specific groups of informal workers in Belo Horizonte, the capital of the...

Informality, Regulation and Taxation

Note prepared for the WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference.

How to Analyse Government Budgets from an Informal Economy Perspective

Budget analysis is a powerful policy analysis tool. This technical brief provides a guide to conducting an informal economy budget analysis...