History, Debate and Theory

The Informal Sector: An Equilibrium Model and some Empirical Evidence from Brazil

Part-time and Temporary Work: Flexibility for Whom?

Informalisation and the Reconfiguration of Labour Relations in the Durban Clothing Industry

The New Face of Unequal Exchange: Low-Wage Manufacturing, Commodity Chains, and Global Inequality

Political Economy Research Institute Working Paper, No. 59

Tackling Entrepreneurship in the Informal Sector: An Overview of the Policy Options, Approaches and Measures

The aim of this paper is to review the various policy options, approaches and measures that can be used to address informal entrepreneurship....

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 Revisited

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

Progress of the World’s Women 2005: Women, Work and Poverty

Available in English here Disponible en español aquí Disponible en français ici 

Social Security and the Changing Labour Market: Access for Non-standard and Informal Workers in South Africa

Employment, Incomes and Equality: A Strategy for Increasing Productive Employment in Kenya

A report of an inter- agency team financed by the United Nations Development Programme and organised by the International Labour Office to...