Poverty / Inequality

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...

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...

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:...

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...

Policy Framework

Some years ago, the world embraced biodiversity. Today, the world needs to also embrace economic diversity — a hybrid economic model that...

Workers’ rights in informal economies

A growing movement is helping improve lives and livelihoods for the world’s informal workers, Sally Roever explains in this Open Democracy...

WIEGO in the World Newsletter

  July 2019  English  |  en Español |  en Français

Women Workers in the New Economy

Labour Market Mobility of Low Income Households

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