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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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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...
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WIEGO in the World Newsletter
July 2019 English | en Español | en Français
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Growth, Structural Change and Wage Rates in Rural India
Examining the structural transformation in India and its developed states to know whether they have passed the Lewis turning point, this...
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Down and Out in Ahmedabad
Migrant workers, who are often landless labourers, seek succour and refuge in night shelters mandated by the Supreme Court of India.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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