Links with Economic Growth/Crisis

WIEGO dans le Monde: Newsletter, juillet 2015

Ce édition du bulletin WIEGO inclut:

Global Labour Column – Power and Classification: Casual Workers Struggles in the South African Post Office

In this article, David Dickinson focuses on the struggles against exploitation by casual workers in the South African Post Office (SAPO)....

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.

A Toolkit for Informality Scenario Analysis

Description from World Bank: ““A Toolkit for Informality Scenario Analysis” is a spreadsheet-based toolkit that allows researchers...

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...

Global Economic Crisis and the Informal Economy: “Smaller-and-Smaller Slivers of a Shrinking Pie”

This two-page flyer provides a snapshot of the impact of the global economic crisis on workers in the informal economy.

La Crisis Economica Global y la Economía Informal Global: “Porciones cada vez menores de una torta que se hace mas pequena”

Manual for Value Chain Research on Homeworkers in the Garment Industry

Brighton: Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex.

Links with Economic Crises

When economic crises cause job losses in the formal economy, more people become employed in the informal economy to survive.

Links with Growth

How much and in what ways does the informal economy contribute to economic growth? Or does the informal economy account for low productivity...