Global Research

COVID-19 Crisis and Canners in New York City, USA: Lasting Impacts and an Agenda for Recovery

Canners represent many underserved populations in New York City, including racially or ethnically marginalized groups, undocumented immigrants,...

COVID-19 Crisis and Street Vendors in New York City, USA: Lasting Impacts and an Agenda for Recovery

Between 10,000 and 20,000 New Yorkers make their living selling food or merchandise on the city’s streets. This report presents the NYC Street...

Are Unfounded Assumptions About the Informal Economy Undermining Universal Social Protection?

It is fair to say that there are a number of legitimate and often complex challenges that governments face in expanding social protection...

There is No Recovery Without Informal Workers: The View from 2021

• December 8, 2021
• Online

Drawing on the experience of thousands of workers across 12 cities, WIEGO will share all-new global data from its IDRC-funded COVID-19 Crisis...

It’s Time for a New Progressive Era, With Informal Workers at the Center

Excerpt from the opinion piece, It’s Time for a New Progressive Era, With Informal Workers at the Center by Darren Walker (president...

Executive Summary: The Crisis is Far from Over for Informal Workers

This summary provides a preliminary overview of how the COVID-19 pandemic has continued to affect the world’s more than 2 billion informal...

The Crisis is Far from Over for Informal Workers — We Need an Inclusive Recovery for the Majority of the World’s Workforce

COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy – Global Findings, Round 2 Policy Insights No. 8 In The Crisis is Far from Over for Informal Workers...

Informal Workers in Southeast Asia: Resourceless, yet Resourceful

Informal workers dominate the region’s labor market in both urban and rural areas. More than half of the workforce in most Southeast Asian...

The Urgent Need to Question Senegal’s Commitment to Ensuring Waste Pickers’ Livelihoods

The restructuring of the Mbeubeuss dump where over 2,000 men and women earn their living is part of Senegal’s “acceleration” programme...

COVID-19 Laws and Informal Workers

In March 2020, WIEGO’s Law Programme began a project to collect, collate and analyse the COVID-19 laws in 41 countries in Africa, 7 in Asia,...