Poverty / Inequality

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...

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.”

Expert Group Meeting – Reducing Inequalities: SDG 10 Progress and Prospects

• April 2, 2019 - April 4, 2019

Geneva, Switzerland

Links with Poverty

Not all informal workers are poor and not all working poor are engaged in the informal economy — but there is significant overlap between...