Poverty / Inequality

Addressing Informality, Reducing PovertyPoverty in Focus

There is increasing recognition that decent and productive employment is an essential pathway to poverty reduction. Most of the working poor...

Home Truths: Domestic Workers in California

The Legal Empowerment Agenda: Poverty, Labour and the Informal Economy in Africa

Despite providing society with a set of crucial services, large groups of workers in the informal economy are subject to exclusion and discrimination,...

Economic Recovery Assessment: Sierra Leone

Evidence from a recent assessment by Mercy Corps of economic recovery assessment in Sierra Leone showed that youth and petty traders were...

Home Truths: Wellbeing and Vulnerabilities of Child Domestic Workers

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

Living Conditions of Tea Plantation Workers

The strike by women workers in the tea plantations of Kerala brings to fore the miserable living conditions of the workers in this sector...

PR No. 15A – Text of the Convention Concerning Decent Work for Domestic Workers

The present document, which elaborates, describes and explains the Domestic Workers Convention, 2011, is the result of the General Conference...

Globalization and the Informal Economy: How Global Trade and Investment Impact on the Working Poor

This paper examines the impact of globalization on those who work in the informal economy, with a special emphasis on women workers and producers. ...

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...