WIEGO joins call for IMF to stop promoting austerity measures in the COVID-19 recovery period
We, the undersigned, call on the IMF to immediately stop promoting austerity around the world, and instead advocate policies that advance...
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Pandemic: Informal workers urgently need income replacement — and more protections
Social distancing and staying home are real possibilities for middle-class office workers covered by social security. They are much less...
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Pandémie : les travailleuse·eur·s de l’informel ont besoin d’un remplacement du revenu de toute urgence et de plus de protections
« Aplatir la courbe » est devenu un mantra de la pandémie COVID-19, mais les appels à l’auto-isolement et à la distanciation sociale...
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Pandemia: las personas trabajadoras en la economía informal necesitan con urgencia una sustitución de ingresos y más protecciones
“Aplanar la curva” se ha convertido en el mantra de la pandemia del COVID-19, pero los pedidos de autoaislamiento y de distanciamiento social...
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Impact of the Global Recession on Members of SEWA in India
In early 2009, the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) of India, one of the partners in the Inclusive Cities project, conducted a study...
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Hierarchies of Earnings and Poverty
Diagrams reveal a hierarchy of earnings and poverty risk across various segments of the labour force. Average earnings are lower and the...
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Informality in Africa: A Review
This paper examines the realities of informal employment in sub-Saharan Africa, where a significant proportion of employment activity and...
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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...
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Informality in South Asia: A Review
This paper seeks to explore the diversity of the informal economy across five countries in South Asia: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan,...
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Legal reforms for the self-employed: three urban cases
Four out of five urban workers in modern India are engaged in the informal economy, and half of these are self-employed. This article examines...
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