Informal Workers in Mexico: A Statistical Snapshot
This Brief provides statistics on the informal economy and categories of informal workers in Mexico. The data in this brief are based on...
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Home-Based Workers in India: A Statistical Profile
This statistical snapshot of India’s home-based workers offers data on the size of this workforce, age, sex, type of industry and more. Data...
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Challenges of Gathering Statistics on Street Vendors
Finding reliable data on the size of the street vending population in any given city can be challenging. Official statistics on street vendors...
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Informal Workers in Ghana: A Statistical Snapshot
This brief details recent data on informal workers in Greater Accra, urban Ghana and Ghana overall, and looks at the data:
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Journal Articles
Gendered inequalities in the South African informal economy
In this article in Agenda, WIEGO’s Michael Rogan and Laura Alfers examine sources of gender inequality within the South African informal...
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WIEGO Makes the Case for Distinguishing between the Informal Economy and Underground and Illegal Production
Marty Chen, Senior Advisor for WIEGO, was among the experts on the informal economy who spoke at the 7th IMF Statistical Forum, highlighting...
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City-level statistical snapshots for South Africa and Thailand available for the first time
WIEGO’s Statistics Programme is launching a new set of Statistical Briefs that provide key indicators of informal employment and key...
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Databases
City Level Statistics on the Informal Workers
This table (Excel spreadsheet) contains the data WIEGO commissioned on informal employment and its workers in 19 cities. WIEGO now produces...
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WIEGO Statistics Programme an example in book Measuring Social Change
The WIEGO Statistics Programme is featured in a recently published book by Alnoor Ebrahim. Ebrahim examines an “emergent strategy”...
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Informal Workers in Urban Thailand: A Statistical Snapshot
This brief contains estimates on informal workers in Bangkok and other urban centres in Thailand.
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