Public and Workplace Services

The Exceptional Persistence of India’s Unorganized Sector

This paper documents several key facts about India’s unorganized sector in manufacturing and services. the paper investigates conditions...

Formalizing Domestic Work

Many countries around the world are at the onset of a care crisis: with the ageing of the population, and continually increasing rates of...

A Framework for Analyzing Social Protection for Workers in the Informal Economy

Social Protection in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Regional Review

Linkages between statutory social security schemes and community-based social protection mechanisms: A promising new approach

ISSA Technical Report, No. 9

Poor health kills small businesses: Illness and microenterprise in South Africa

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A Participatory Model for Improving Occupational Health and Safety: Improving Informal Sector Working Conditions in ThailandInternational Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the implementation of an Occupational Health and Safety Management Model for informal sector workers...

Falling through the Regulatory Cracks: Street Selling of Pesticides and Poisoning among Urban Youth in South AfricaInternational Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health

Engendering Social Protection

Conference Summary Report from an International Conference on Social Protection and Gender, held with social protection officials and civil...

Social Protection as Development Policy: Asian Perspectives