Links with Economic Growth/Crisis

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Formal-Informal Economy Linkages and Unemployment in South Africa

Globalization, Free Trade, and the Social Impact of the Decline of Informal Production: The Case of Artisans in Quito, Ecuador

In the context of globalization and policies to promote free trade on an international scale, this paper discusses what has happened to...

Occupational Structure and Incidence of Poverty in Indian Towns of Different Sizes

Whose Wealth Is It Anyway? Mozambique’s Outstanding Economic Growth with Worsening Rural Poverty

Despite rapid economic growth and massive inflows of aid, rural poverty in Mozambique is worsening. Agricultural production and productivity have...