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Collective Bargaining by Informal Workers in the Global South: Where and How It Takes Place This Working Paper examines what collective negotiation (bargaining) looks like and what it means for informal worker organizations and their... Read More
Supporting Women Home-Based Workers: The Approach of the Self-Employed Womens, Association in India The Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) of India is a national labour union that organizes women, workers in the informal economy... Read More
Statistics on Domestic Workers in Latin America Domestic work is an important occupation, involving a significant proportion of the workforce in Latin America. Read More
How to Assess Security of Tenure and Emulate Mortgages for Financing Semi-Formal Homes: Lessons from Mahila Housing SEWA Trust Nohn and Bhatt’s Technical Brief examines how the Mahila Housing Trust (MHT) has tackled the issue of housing loans in contexts of tenure... 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
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
