Theme: Special Research Initiatives

Registering Informal Workers in India: e-Shram, an Opportunity Lost?

The launch of e-Shram, a national database of workers who earn a living in the informal economy, holds lessons for implementation going forward...

Taxing the Informal Economy: Policy, Evidence and Lessons for the Future

• April 4, 2023
• Online

In the wake of the pandemic, developing and middle-income countries are facing increasing pressure to improve domestic resource mobilization....

Subverting Master Planning to Advance Informal Worker Interests: Lessons from Delhi

Heeding the United Nations call to share transformative approaches to local action on World Cities Day, Focal Cities Coordinator Jenna Harvey...

International Women’s Day 2022

For International Women’s Day, WIEGO looks at the foundation that women leaders of worker organizations have laid during the pandemic...

Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions through Inclusive Recycling

WIEGO in the World Newsletter

  July 2019  English  |  en Español |  en Français

Autonomy, Security, and Voice: Informal Women Workers in Ahmedabad City, India

Bridging Perspectives

This volume brings together the personal and technical reflections of a group of individuals who undertook a unique Exposure-Dialogue Programme...

Executive Summary – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Waste Pickers in Pune, India

City Report (English)

¿Qué derechos laborales tienen los trabajadores informales del servicio de limpia en la ciudad de México?: el caso de los trabajadores voluntarios y pepenadoresMétodhos

El presente artículo tiene por objetivo demostrar que el servicio de limpia es un servicio público cuya realización corresponde al Gobierno...