Poverty / Inequality

Time for a New Deal: Social Dialogue and the Informal Economy in Zambia

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Labour Market Mobility of Low Income Households

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...

Not to be Taken for Granted: What Informal Waste Pickers Offer the Urban Economy

WIEGO Waste Sector Specialist Sonia Dias argues for a holistic approach to solid waste management that recognises the economic and environmental...

The Home as Factory Floor: Employment and Remuneration of Home-based Workers

Summary: Home-based work, defined as non-professionals who perform market work from their homes, is an increasingly recognized form of employment...

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...

“God First, Second the Market”: A Case Study of the Sirleaf Market Women’s Fund of Liberia

This Case Study presents some of the first steps being taken in Liberia, to find solutions to the problems women traders face which normally...

The Living Wage: Winning the Fight for Social Justice

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...

Low-waged and Informal Employment in South Africa