All posts in Poverty / Inequality
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Research Reports
Going Nowhere Fast: Limited Occupational Mobility in the Fast Food Industry
Front-line jobs in the fast food industry—including cooks, cashiers, delivery workers, and other non-managerial positions—rank among the...
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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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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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The New Face of Unequal Exchange: Low-Wage Manufacturing, Commodity Chains, and Global Inequality
Political Economy Research Institute Working Paper, No. 59
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Stitched Up: Poverty wages for garment workers in Eastern Europe and Turkey
A report released in June 2014 by Clean Clothes Campaign shows that garment workers in Eastern Europe and Turkey are paid poverty wages and...
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Domestic workers and Informality: Compliance with DecentWork for Domestic Workers as a Transgression to the Asymmetrical Law of the Home Workplace*
The situation of informality addressed through invisibility and the consequent need to overcome the asymmetrical law of home-based work. ...
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The Low-Wage Recovery and Growing Inequality
NELP Summary: This report updates NELP’s previous analyses of job loss and job growth trends during and after the Great Recession. More information...
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Promoting Low-Carbon Transport in India and the Challenges of Social Inclusion: Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Case Studies in India
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Supporting Informal Livelihoods in Public Space: A Toolkit for Local Authorities
This toolkit is designed to assist city officials and other local authorities to adopt an inclusive approach to managing public space that...
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The Inequality of Declining Wages During the Recovery
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