History, Debate and Theory

Constraints on Policy Making Towards the Informal Economy in Indonesia: Lessons of the Current Decade

This study was undertaken as part of an effort to draw out policy lessons learnt since the systemic shock triggered by the 1997/98 crisis,...

Relations of Production and Modes of Surplus Extraction in India: Part II – ‘Informal’ Industry

This paper uses aggregate-level data, as well as case-studies, to trace the evolution of some key structural features of the Indian economy,...

Rethinking the Informal Economy: Linkages with the Formal Economy and the Formal Regulatory Environment

Informality Revisited

Abstract: The paper draws on recent evidence––economic, sociological and anthropological––from Latin America to forward a view of the informal...

eThekwini’s Informal Economy Policy

Approved and adopted by the Durban Unicity Council

VIDEO: Pat Horn of StreetNet International Addresses ITUC

Informal Economy Debates: Dominant Schools of Thought

Over the years, the debate on the informal economy has crystallized into four dominant schools of thought regarding the causes, composition,...

Social Protection for Home-Based Workers in Thailand

Thailand is taking steps to give people access to basic social protection, including providing universal health care and pension systems. However,...

Substitution of Animal Traction Vehicles in Bogota

In 2003, the national transit code sought to eradicate animal traction vehicles or animal pulled carts that would have affected hundreds...

Jobs and Livelihoods – a DFID Report (UK)

WIEGO was invited by ActionAid to join its panel to provide oral evidence to the UK Parliament’s Economic Development Strategy Framework...