Poverty / Inequality

Challenging Economic Inequality: Tactics and Strategies

Economic and social inequality is a major problem, implicated in poverty, ill health and exploitation. Inequality has increased in many countries...

Women and the Informal Economy: A Think Piece

Summary from Office of Development Effectiveness: “Women dominate the informal economy. Within informal employment, their wages are...

Socio-economic status of workers of building construction industry

Industrialization with the introduction of newly developed technologies plays an important role for development of a country. Building construction...

Stealing from the Poor: Wage Theft in the Haitian Apparel Industry

From the Executive Summary of the report: Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Its expanding garment industry pays wages...

El empoderamiento de las mujeres: Encuentro del primer y tercer mundos en los estudios de géneroRevista de estudios de género: La ventana

Resumen: Dos conceptos han marcado la producción de la teoría feminista: género y empoderamiento.

The Constitutional Parameters of New York State’s Domestic Workers Bill of Rights

Legal Empowerment of the Poor: The Re-emergence of a Lost Strand of Human Rights?

Abstract: This paper considers the contribution of the UNDP’s Legal Empowerment of the Poor (LEP) framework to the rights and poverty...

Redemption – The Documentary

From the documentary’s website: “They are New York City’s gleaners – struggling at the edge of our society. You see them on almost...

Decent work for indigenous domestic workers

From this edition of the ILO’s newsletter: “Indigenous peoples constitute about 5% of the world’s population and account for...

(Re)conceptualizing poverty and informal employment

Presentation from Session 3 of the WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference – “Informality and Economics.”