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Joint Statement Garment Workers COVID-19

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The Informal Economy Revisited: Examining the Past, Envisioning the Future

This open-access book, edited by Martha Chen and Françoise Carré, brings together leading scholars to investigate recent conceptual shifts,...

Informal Workers in the COVID-19 Crisis: A global picture of sudden impact and long-term risk

In an immediate response to COVID-19, WIEGO conducted a rapid assessment to understand how the pandemic and the related public health measures...

Panorama dos impactos da pandemia COVID-19 na reciclagem inclusiva no Brasil

WIEGO Network Platform – Hindi

वैिश्वक अथर्व्यवस्था में अनौपचािरक श्रिमक संगठन सभी स्तरों पर सरकारों को इस दौरान जमीनी स्तर पर उभरने वाले राहत प्रयासों पर हमारे साथ भागीदार...

Overview of the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Inclusive Recycling in Brazil

Reshaping our systems of inclusive recycling is important, with waste pickers an essential part of Brazil’s economy, write Sonia Dias, Ricardo...

Urban Thinkers Campus (UTC): Informal Workers & COVID-19: Impact and Vision for the Future

• July 14, 2020
• Online

Sixty-one per cent of all workers –2 billion people– are informally employed.  Many of those who work informally, live in slums and their...

ZCIEA Press Statement on the re-opening of the informal sector in Zimbabwe

President of Zimbabwe has said that informal sector enterprises can operate “on condition they register with their authorities first,...

Capacité de Résilience des Acteurs de l’Economie Sociale et Solidaire (ESS) Face au COVID-19

• June 17, 2020
• Online

17 juin 2020 l 11h00 l Temps Universel Coordonné (TUC) En collaboration avec le Ministère de la Microfinance et de l’Economie sociale...

¿Cómo enfrentan los comerciantes en vía pública al COVID-19?

Con un presupuesto equivalente al 12% de su PIB, el Perú implementó el paquete de respuesta a la pandemia del COVID-19 más grande en América...