Theme: History, Debate and Theory

Women’s Employment, Economic Risk, and Poverty

Beyond the Factory: Globalisation, Informalisation of Production and the New Locations of Labour

This essay foregrounds the phenomenon of informalised self-employment and explores its implications for potentially new forms of labour activism....

Urbanization and Agglomeration Benefits: Gender Differentiated Impacts on Enterprise Creation in India’s Informal Sector

This paper presents an exploration at the intersection of four important themes in the current development discourse: urbanization, agglomeration...

Organizing Informal Workers: Benefits, Challenges, and Successes

Abstract: The informal workforce represents more than half of all workers in most developing countries and a significant share of workers...

Mainstreaming Informal Employment and Gender in Poverty Reduction: A Handbook for Policymakers and Other Stakeholders

The Investment Climate for the Informal Economy: A Case of Durban, South Africa

Women in the Informal Sector: A Global Picture, the Global Movement

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Getting Institutions Right? Local Government and Street Traders in Four South African Cities

Measuring the Unorganized Sector in India

2013 World Development Report on Jobs

The 2013 World Development Report on Jobs stresses the role of strong private sector led growth in creating jobs and outlines how jobs that...