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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 Law & Informality Insights Using the Right to Information in the Informal Economy: A How-To Guide This practical guide outlines how the right to information, a right that is broadly recognized in international law and in most countries... Read More Organizing Briefs Options for Organizing Waste Pickers in South Africa This brief is part of the WIEGO Publication Series. View list of all WIEGO briefs. Read More Technical 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... Read More Working Papers Informal Sector and Informal Employment: Overview of Data for 11 Cities in 10 Developing Countries This paper presents tabulations on informal employment in urban areas of 10 developing countries: Abidjan, Antananarivo, Bamako, Cotonou,... Read More Working Papers The Informal Economy: Definitions, Theories and Policies The paper proposes a comprehensive policy response to the informal economy with four main pillars: create more formal jobs; regulate informal... Read More Resource Documents Informal Economy Budget Analysis: Greater Monrovia Read More First Prev ... 13 ... 22 23 24 Next Last
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
Using the Right to Information in the Informal Economy: A How-To Guide This practical guide outlines how the right to information, a right that is broadly recognized in international law and in most countries... Read More
Options for Organizing Waste Pickers in South Africa This brief is part of the WIEGO Publication Series. View list of all WIEGO briefs. Read More
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... Read More
Informal Sector and Informal Employment: Overview of Data for 11 Cities in 10 Developing Countries This paper presents tabulations on informal employment in urban areas of 10 developing countries: Abidjan, Antananarivo, Bamako, Cotonou,... Read More
The Informal Economy: Definitions, Theories and Policies The paper proposes a comprehensive policy response to the informal economy with four main pillars: create more formal jobs; regulate informal... Read More
