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  • Home-Based Workers, Lahore, Pakistan, 2014 Post
    Building Collective Power February 10, 2023

    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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  • Organizing Briefs

    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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  • News

    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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  • Pakistan home-based worker - cover photo SB26 Statistical Briefs

    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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  • WIEGO Publication Series

    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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  • Briefs

    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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  • Briefs

    Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Pakistan and Ravi Town, Lahore

    Urdu Translation

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  • Research Reports

    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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  • Statistical Briefs

    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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  • Research Reports

    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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