Links with Economic Growth/Crisis

The Global Crisis, Unemployment and HIV/ AIDS: What Role for Public Works Programmes?

Coping with Crises: Lingering Recession, Rising Inflation, and the Informal Workforce

In 2009, researchers in 14 urban locales in 10 countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America conducted individual and focus group interviews...

Changing Employment Patterns and the Informalization of Jobs: General Trends and Gender Dimensions

Egypt: growing informality, 1990-2003

Tracking Study of Cambodian Garment Sector Workers Affected by the Global Economic Crisis: Second Tracking Survey Final Report

A Crise Econômica Global e a Economia Informal – Sumario Executivo

Sem almofadas para amenizar o tombo – Sumário Executivo

Report available in English here. Informe disponible en español aquí. Fact Sheet available in English here. Ficha Técnica disponible en español...

Gender Differences in Pay

Abstract: We consider the gender pay gap in the United States. Both gender-specific factors, including gender differences in qualifications...

Informal business and poverty in South Africa: Rethinking the paradigmLaw, Democracy and Development

Analysing policy discourse concerning the informal economy in South Africa, the article explicates in detail the paucity of (even ostensibly...

Working Women and Security: Self Employed Women’s Association’s Response to Crisis

Abstract: