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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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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Journal Articles
One Step Forward or More Window Dressing? A Legal Analysis of Recent CSR Initiatives in the Garment Industry in BangladeshInternational Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations
Abstract: The Bangladesh ready-made garment industry has recently been the scene of a number of major accidents, with the collapse of the...
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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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