All posts in Poverty / Inequality
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COVID-19 Crisis Study March 30, 2020Esta nueva crisis acentúa las antiguas injusticias de la economía global
La cobertura de COVID-19 por parte de muchos de los medios de comunicación más influyentes del mundo ha estado dominada por informes desalentadores...
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COVID-19 Crisis Study March 30, 2020
Cette nouvelle crise fait ressortir les vieilles injustices dans l’économie mondiale
Les rapports sinistres sur les systèmes de santé débordés d’ici et d’autres parties de l’Europe, ainsi que de l’Amérique du Nord, ont dominé...
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COVID-19 Crisis Study March 23, 2020Pandemic: Informal workers urgently need income replacement — and more protections
Social distancing and staying home are real possibilities for middle-class office workers covered by social security. They are much less...
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COVID-19 Crisis Study March 23, 2020
Pandémie : les travailleuse·eur·s de l’informel ont besoin d’un remplacement du revenu de toute urgence et de plus de protections
« Aplatir la courbe » est devenu un mantra de la pandémie COVID-19, mais les appels à l’auto-isolement et à la distanciation sociale...
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COVID-19 Crisis Study March 23, 2020
Pandemia: las personas trabajadoras en la economía informal necesitan con urgencia una sustitución de ingresos y más protecciones
“Aplanar la curva” se ha convertido en el mantra de la pandemia del COVID-19, pero los pedidos de autoaislamiento y de distanciamiento social...
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COVID-19, Informal Workers and WIEGO’s Work during this Crisis
In this global pandemic, WIEGO is focused on the potentially devastating consequences for the world’s two billion informal workers, who lack...
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Hierarchies of Earnings and Poverty
Diagrams reveal a hierarchy of earnings and poverty risk across various segments of the labour force. Average earnings are lower and the...
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Links with Inequality
The inequalities between those at the base of the economic pyramid and those at the tip can be traced through nested layers of inequality:...
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Links with Poverty: Data Sources
All of the data for the UNIFEM-WIEGO studies were from the late 1990s and early 2000s. The data sources and years for the five countries...
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Policy Framework
Some years ago, the world embraced biodiversity. Today, the world needs to also embrace economic diversity — a hybrid economic model that...
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