Public and Workplace Services

The Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme: Assessing Access by Informal Workers

In 2003 the Ghanaian government introduced, a National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) – an, innovative and large scale attempt to extend,...

The Occupational Health of Waste Pickers in Pune: KKPKP and SWaCH Members Push for Health Rights

This report from the union of waste pickers, KKPKP, in Pune, India details the interventions of the union to improve the health of their...

South Africa: Transition Under Pressure

The Informal Workers Health Project

This short report provides a summary of the interventions developed by WIEGO and its partners for Rockefeller Foundation’s Informal Workers...

Informal Workers & The Future of Work: A Defence of Work-Related Social Protection

This Working Paper responds to current debates on the future of social protection as employment relationships become increasingly non-existent,...

Child Labour in Industrial Outworker Households in India

Value of Formalization for Women Entrepreneurs in Developing Contexts: A Review and Research AgendaInternational Journal of Management Reviews

Abstract: Formalization is constantly being proposed as being of great benefit to business expansion and success. This claim, however, has...

Crowding in Care, Security and Micro-enterprise Formation: Revisiting the Role of the State in Poverty Reduction, and in Development

From the Household to the Factory: Sex Discrimination in the Guatemalan Labour Force

Barriers to the Extension of Social Protection: Evidence from Asia