History, Debate and Theory

Informal Economies

The Spatial Reproduction of Urban PovertyEconomic & Political Weekly

This article highlights, from the vantage point of workers in the resettlement colony, how the restructuring processes of large formal sector...

The Informal Workforce and Public Policy

WIEGO translated this article into English (with permission) from the original, published in Trabajo Informal, Este Pais, in July 2013.  ...

The Efficiency of Informality: Quantifying Greenhouse Gas Reductions from Informal Recycling in Bogotá, Colombia

Abstract: The dual challenges of increasing urbanization and consumption are centered in cities in the Global South, where growing waste...

Informality and Social Protection: Theory and Realities

We are Poor but So Many: The Story of Self-Employed Women in India

Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labour

Social pensions and policy learning: The case of southern Africa

Social Policy and Inequality in Latin America: A Review of Recent Trends

Policies, Regulations and Organizational Capacity of Women Street Vendors in Kenya

IDS Discussion Paper Number 299