All posts in Poverty / Inequality
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Fiscal Justice October 30, 2019Workers’ 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
The Micro Political Economy of Gains by Unorganised Workers in India
This review of literature looks at the micro-political mechanisms through which unorganised labour makes gains in wages and conditions of...
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Research Reports
Temporary Help Workers in the U.S. Labor Market
Summary: The number of jobs in the temporary help services industry reached an all-time high of 2.9 million in May 2015, accounting for 2.4...
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Research Reports
Revisiting CEDAW’s Recommendations: Has anything changed for migrant workers in Israel in the last two years?
From the paper’s introduction: “Two years ago, in early 2011, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination...
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Research Reports
(Re)conceptualizing poverty and informal employment
Note from WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference.
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Journal Articles
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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Journal Articles
Territorial Legends: Politics of Indigeneity, Migration, and Urban Citizenship in Pasighat
Exploring how the policy of protection of indigenous people works on the ground in Pasighat, a town in Arunachal Pradesh, this paper brings...
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Research Reports
Delinking and Rethinking Social Protection for Women in Informal Employment? Perspectives from Latin America
In the Latin America region, women in informal employment struggle to gain access to health, old-age pensions or maternity benefits, because...
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Research Reports
“God First, Second the Market”: A Case Study of the Sirleaf Market Women’s Fund of Liberia
This Case Study presents some of the first steps being taken in Liberia, to find solutions to the problems women traders face which normally...
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