Theme: History, Debate and Theory

Extending Social Protection to Informal Workers in the Horticulture Global Value Chain

Social Protection Discussion Paper Series, No. 0216

Definitions, Data and the Informal Economy in South Africa: A Critical Analysis

Chapter can be accessed through Google Scholar or download the book, The Development Decade? in its entirety.

Social Policy and Employment: Rebuilding the Connections

This brief points to the inappropriate decoupling of social policy from employment objectives and outlines their intrinsic links. It argues...

Statistics on the Informal Economy: Definitions, Regional Estimates & Challenges

This working paper offers new regional estimates on informal employment based on direct measures from 40 countries and indirect measures...

Mean Streets: Migration, Xenophobia and Informality in South Africa

WIEGO Research on Informal Employment: Key Methods, Indicators & Findings

Note from WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference. 

Resolution on Women Workers in the Informal Economy

The Launch of ‘Design with the Other 90%: CITIES’

Reflections on the launch of  Design with the Other 90%: CITIES’ exhibition, a project by the Smithsonian-Cooper Hewitt, National Design...

7/29, Session 1 – Chen

WIEGO’s Martha Chen, also of the Harvard Kennedy School, defines, explains and offers statistics on the global informal economy and...

Social Protection and Human Rights Platform

From the website: “This platform began in 2013 as a collaboration between the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development...