Poverty / 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

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...

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...

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...

El empoderamiento de las mujeres: Encuentro del primer y tercer mundos en los estudios de géneroRevista de estudios de género: La ventana

Resumen: Dos conceptos han marcado la producción de la teoría feminista: género y empoderamiento.

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...

Low-waged and Informal Employment in South Africa