Busting Myths and Exploring Fairer Ways to Finance Social Protection for Workers in Informal Employment
This ebook brings together WIEGO’s extensive research and partnerships to challenge dominant ideas shaping how social protection is financed for workers in informal employment. The book critically examines the narratives advanced by powerful global actors, such as international financial institutions and ministries of finance, that often undermine fair and inclusive social protection systems. Drawing on evidence from both global and national contexts, it explores how these narratives take root, how they affect workers’ realities, and how they can be transformed. Through rigorous analysis and grounded collaboration with worker organizations, this publication offers alternative and progressive approaches to financing social protection, showing how grounded evidence and worker-led perspectives can challenge prevailing narratives and open the way for more equitable and sustainable policy solutions.
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