History, Debate and Theory

Engendering Social Protection

Conference Summary Report from an International Conference on Social Protection and Gender, held with social protection officials and civil...

Trade and Employment in Services: The Case of Indonesia

This study examines the importance of the services sector and its linkages with other sectors in terms of value-added and employment from...

Gender, informality and poverty

From the paper’s introduction: In this paper we shall argue that it is not informality per se, but the nature of work and its relation...

Mean Streets: Migration, Xenophobia and Informality in South Africa

Step-by-step guide to reviewing and improving purchasing practices

Initial Lessons from the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) Purchasing Practices Project. London. Ethical Trading Initiative.

Informal Labor & Development: The way forward

Presentation given during panel discussion, “The Perspective of the Working Poor in the Informal Economy.” The panel was conducted...

Crónicas de una lucha por la inclusión: Sustitución de Vehículos de Tracción Animal – Bogotá 2014

En el año 2003, el Código Nacional de Transito pretendía eliminar los vehículos de tracción animal. Esto afectaba a miles de recicladores...

WIEGO en el Mundo: Boletín Informativo, julio de 2015

Este número del boletín WIEGO incluye:

Fair and Ethical Trade: An Explanation

This resource is a technical guide, commissioned by WIEGO. A single, technical and universally accepted definition of Fair Trade has been...

Waste pickers in Colombia

In “Order 275, dating from 2011,” a lead waste picker interviews two high-level officials, who explain the content of the constitutional...