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Law & Informality Insights Legal and Policy Tools to Meet Informal Workers Demands: Lessons from India This brief draws on a two-year Indian study detailing how legal and policy tools have been used or can be used to address the diverse concerns... Read More Organizing Briefs Organizing on the Streets: A Study of Reclaimers in the Streets of Cape Town This brief is part of the WIEGO Publication Series. View list of all WIEGO briefs. Read More Technical Briefs Mixed-Use Zoning and Home-Based Production in India This technical brief critically assesses land-use zoning regulations, both generally and specifically in India, with particular reference... Read More Working Papers The Informal Economy in Greater Buenos Aires: A Statistical Profile This paper interrogates the nature of the informal economy in Greater Buenos Aires. It takes advantage of the existence of a unique dataset,... Read More Working Papers Social Protection, Citizenship and the Employment Relationship This paper addresses the issues of social protection, citizenship and the employment relationship, through the lens of South Africa. It argues... Read More Working Papers Informal Work and the Social Function of the City: A Framework for Legal Reform in the Urban Environment The New Urban Agenda envisages cities and human settlements that fulfil their social function. But what is a city’s “social function”? And... Read More Resource Documents Perceptions of Costs and Benefits of Informal-Formal Linkages: Market and Street Vendors in Accra, Ghana Read More Policy Briefs Housing Finance for Poor Working Women: Innovations of the Self-Employed Women’s Association in India The Self-Employed Womens Association (SEWA) of India recognizes that the home is a paramount productive asset, especially for poor women.... Read More Budget Briefs Budgeting and the Informal Economy in Accra, Ghana About 86 per cent of Ghanaian workers work in the informal economy but together they earn only 40 per cent of national income. This is because... Read More Statistical Briefs Measurement of Employment-Related Income: Concepts, Data Sources and a Test of Methods This brief aims at reviewing the possibility of measuring income from employment with existing sources, in particular, assessing the feasibility... Read More First Prev ... 4 ... 13 14 15 ... 24 Next Last
Legal and Policy Tools to Meet Informal Workers Demands: Lessons from India This brief draws on a two-year Indian study detailing how legal and policy tools have been used or can be used to address the diverse concerns... Read More
Organizing on the Streets: A Study of Reclaimers in the Streets of Cape Town This brief is part of the WIEGO Publication Series. View list of all WIEGO briefs. Read More
Mixed-Use Zoning and Home-Based Production in India This technical brief critically assesses land-use zoning regulations, both generally and specifically in India, with particular reference... Read More
The Informal Economy in Greater Buenos Aires: A Statistical Profile This paper interrogates the nature of the informal economy in Greater Buenos Aires. It takes advantage of the existence of a unique dataset,... Read More
Social Protection, Citizenship and the Employment Relationship This paper addresses the issues of social protection, citizenship and the employment relationship, through the lens of South Africa. It argues... Read More
Informal Work and the Social Function of the City: A Framework for Legal Reform in the Urban Environment The New Urban Agenda envisages cities and human settlements that fulfil their social function. But what is a city’s “social function”? And... Read More
Perceptions of Costs and Benefits of Informal-Formal Linkages: Market and Street Vendors in Accra, Ghana Read More
Housing Finance for Poor Working Women: Innovations of the Self-Employed Women’s Association in India The Self-Employed Womens Association (SEWA) of India recognizes that the home is a paramount productive asset, especially for poor women.... Read More
Budgeting and the Informal Economy in Accra, Ghana About 86 per cent of Ghanaian workers work in the informal economy but together they earn only 40 per cent of national income. This is because... Read More
Measurement of Employment-Related Income: Concepts, Data Sources and a Test of Methods This brief aims at reviewing the possibility of measuring income from employment with existing sources, in particular, assessing the feasibility... Read More
