Theme: Poverty / Inequality

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

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...

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

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