Livelihoods

Informal Economy Centrestage: New Structures of Employment

Urban Livelihoods and Food and Nutrition Security in Greater Accra, Ghana

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Research Report, No. 112

Informality, Employment and Economic Development in the Arab World

From the abstract:

“I carry people and goods across the border for a living”

Informal cross-border couriers (bomalayisha) have transported people and goods between Zimbabwe and South Africa for several decades.

Does Informal Employment Exist in the United States and Other Developed Countries? New Solutions

Abstract: This editorial argues that informal employment does exist in developed countries and needs to be studied as such to complement...

Inside the Home, Outside the Law: Abuse of Child Domestic Workers in Morocco

International trade and industrial upgrading in the apparel commodity chain

Education and earnings in urban West Africa

New Governance and the Role of Public and Private Monitoring of Labor Conditions: Sweatshops and China Social Compliance for Textile and Apparel Industry/CSC9000T

Abstract:

Organizing Labour in the Informal Economy: Institutional Forms & Relationships

Abstract in French and English. Article in English.