Region: Asia & the Pacific

Budget Brief 3: Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Pakistan and Ravi Town, Lahore

  This brief is part of the WIEGO Publication Series.   View list of all WIEGO briefs.

Outworkers and Precarity: The Case of Victorian Clothing WorkersJust Policy: A Journal of Australian Social Policy

Abstract: Clothing outworkers are some of the most exploited and marginalised workers in the Australian labour market. If trade unions are...

We are Poor but So Many: The Story of Self-Employed Women in India

Social Protection for Informal Workers: Insecurities, Instruments and Institutional Mechanisms

Avoiding informality traps

Draft paper for E. Ghani (Ed.), Reshaping tomorrow: Positioning South Asia for the big leap

Seen but not heard: Urban voice and citizenship for street traders

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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...

Definitional and Statistical Issues: Task force Report

This is a report of the  Task Force  set up to review the existing definitions and evolve a set of criteria for  common definitions of un-organised/informal...

Social protection for women homeworkers: a case of healthcare services in Thailand

Gender, Informality and Poverty: A Global Review

From the paper’s introduction: In this paper we shall argue that it is not informality per se, but the nature of work and its relation...