History, Debate and Theory

The Business Environment and the Informal Economy: Creating Conditions for Poverty Reduction

Draft Paper for Committee of Donor Agencies for Small Enterprise Development Conference on “Reforming the Business Environment” November...

The Global City: Strategic Site/ New Frontier

Earnings Structures, Informal Employment, and Self-Employment: New Evidence from Brazil, Mexico, and South Africa

The Informal Economy: Definitions, Theories and Policies

The paper proposes a comprehensive policy response to the informal economy with four main pillars: create more formal jobs; regulate informal...

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...

Who Cares? article in Feministische Studien

Who cares? Drei politische Tagungen im März 2014 in Berlin This article (in German) was written by Karin Pape, the Deputy Director of WIEGO’s...

Supporting Workers in the Informal Economy: A Policy Framework

Paper Prepared for ILO Task Force on the Informal Economy

The Investment Climate for Female Informal Businesses: A Case Study from Urban and Rural India