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ILO-WIEGO Statistical Reports

WIEGO has worked closely with the International Labour Organization (ILO) in the development of statistics on the informal economy. In 2018,...

Report on Conditions of Work and Promotion of Livelihoods in the Unorganised Sector

Informal Jobs in Industrialized ‘North’ Countries

Background paper for Women and Men in Informal Employment: A Statistical Picture.

System of National Accounts 2008

More information about the 2008 SNA, including versions in other languages, is available here.The 2008 SNA is an update of the System of...

How to Plan a Street Trader Census

Street traders represent one of the largest and most visible segments of the informal economy, yet the actual number of street traders working...

Global and regional estimation of informal sector employment: A methodology

Background document for the WIEGO Statistics Planning Meeting, June 2002

The Informal Economy: Definitions, Theories and Policies

The paper proposes a comprehensive policy response to the informal economy with four main pillars: create more formal jobs; regulate informal...

World of Work Report 2012 ‘Better Jobs for a Better Economy’

The new study examines the performance of different countries since the start of the global crisis through the prism of the quantity and...

The Contribution of Informal Sector to GDP in Developing Countries: Assessment, Estimates, Methods, Orientations for the Future

Presented at the 4th Meeting of the Delhi Group on Informal Sector Statistics; Geneva: 28-30 August 2000