The Journey Towards Recognition and Rights for Home-Based Workers in Pakistan
Home-based workers in Pakistan’s Sindh province achieved a historic victory with legislation that gives approximately 5 million home-based...
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The Journey from “Factories in Homes” to Legal Recognition and Rights for Home-Based Workers in Pakistan
This brief discusses the struggle of home-based workers in Pakistan to realize the rights enshrined in the Sindh Home-Based Workers Act of...
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Open Letter to European Union Policymakers
As the world reels from the devastation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, where supply chains and workers’ livelihoods were brought to a grinding...
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Home-Based Workers in Pakistan: A Statistical Profile
In recent years, home-based work has grown in Pakistan. This growth is due to an increase in the number of women doing home-based work, while...
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Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Pakistan and Ravi Town, Lahore
The bulk of Pakistan’s workforce is unorganized, and the data available do not depict the true picture, particularly of the number of women...
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How to Analyse Government Budgets from an Informal Economy Perspective
Budget analysis is a powerful policy analysis tool. This technical brief provides a guide to conducting an informal economy budget analysis...
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Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Pakistan and Ravi Town, Lahore
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The Urban Informal Workforce: Home-Based Workers
These findings are based on research conducted in 2012 as part of the Informal Economy Monitoring Study (IEMS), a project under Inclusive...
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Home-Based Workers in Pakistan: Statistics and Trends
This report presents statistics and trends on home-based workers in Pakistan, based on data from the Labour Force Survey for two points in...
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Informal Economy Monitoring Study Sector Report: Home-Based Workers
This report synthesizes qualitative and quantitative data from the first (2012) round of IEMS fieldwork in the home-based work sector in...
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