Theme: Public and Workplace Services

Living in the Background: Home-based Women Workers and Poverty Persistence

CPRC Working Paper 97

Location, Location, Location: The Life of a Refugee Street Barber in Durban, South Africa

Choma Choma Nalushaka made an arduous journey from war-torn Congo to South Africa—then waited years for his family to join him. He has established...

Our Children Do Not Get the Attention They Deserve

This report presents the results of a five-city research study examining informal women workers’ access to child care in Brazil, Ghana,...

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...

The e-waste conundrum: Balancing evidence from the North and on-the-ground developing countries’ realities for improved managementAfrican Review of Economics and Finance

Abstract from African Review of Economics and Finance: E-waste is currently the fastest-growing waste stream, posing major global management...

Role of Informal Sector Recycling in Waste Management in Developing Countries

Informality and Social Protection: Theory and Realities

Introducing basic social protection in low income countries: Lessons from existing programmes

Brooks World Poverty Institute Working Paper, No. 6

Latin American capitalism: economic and social policy in transition

Employee and union inputs into occupational health and safety measures in Chinese factories

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