All posts in History, Debate and Theory
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Research Reports
Criminalising the Livelihoods of the Poor: The impact of formalising informal trading on female and migrant traders in Durban
According to the author’s of this report, the policy of the eThekwini Municipality in South Africa on informal economy, encompassing informal...
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Global Recession and the Informal Economy: Evidence from Latin America and Beyond
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Facing the Facts: Acknowledging the informal economy in anti-poverty policies and services
Most people who work informally are forced to do so to make ends meet rather than out of a desire to cheat the system. Yet by working in...
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National Policy on Urban Street Vendors
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Journal Articles
Special Issue on Labor Law Reforms in India
The issue features an article on law and the self-employed in India (see pp 133-150, Legal Reforms for the Self-Employed: Three Urban Cases),...
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The Informal Economy: Recent Trends, Future Directions
Abstract: Informal employment represents more than half of nonagricultural employment in most developing regions, contributes to the overall...
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Progress of the World’s Women 2005: Women, Work and Poverty
Available in English here Disponible en español aquí Disponible en français ici
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Social Security and the Changing Labour Market: Access for Non-standard and Informal Workers in South Africa
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Rethinking the Informal Economy: Linkages with the Formal Economy and the Formal Regulatory Environment
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Flexibility of Labour in Globalizing India
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