Theme: Fiscal Justice

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...

Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Pakistan and Ravi Town, Lahore

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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...

Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Philippines and Quezon City

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Budgeting and the Informal Economy in Durban, South Africa

In 2014, 18 per cent of people employed in KwaZulu-Natal worked in an informal enterprise. In 2014/15, eThekwini’s budget was R38.8 billion...

Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Peru and Metropolitan Lima

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Thresholds, Informality, and Partitions of Compliance

Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Working Paper 2014-11