Street Vendors & Market Traders

COVID-19: What happens to women with low incomes after they lose their jobs?

“It’s very hard to see what the other end of this crisis is going to look like at the grassroots level, at the base of the economic...

Support for women informal workers in South Africa is urgent

In an article in The Conversation, WIEGO’s Mike Rogan and Caroline Skinner argue that job losses show that support for women informal...

The Impact of COVID-19 Laws on Informal Workers: A Review of 51 Countries

Law and Informality Insights – August 2020

August 2020 This edition of Law and Informality Insights analyzes the COVID-19 laws with an informal worker lens, with a particular focus...

No Place for Street Vendors: Global Capital and Local Exclusion in an East Asian Immigrant Enclave of New York City

The survey on which this Resource Document is based shows that, for many people in the New York City neighbourhood of Flushing, a good neighbourhood...

Impact of COVID-19 on Street Vendors in India: Status and Steps for Advocacy

By: Avi Singh Majithia July 2020 Photo credit: Rashmi Choudhary The lockdown in Delhi came down harshly on street vendors, as it did for...

Social Protection Briefing Notes

WIEGO has produced a series of briefs to analyze the Social Protection Responses to COVID-19, drawing from WIEGO’s database of social...

Marty Chen in IDS Webinar on Informal Workers: What Can Be Done

WIEGO Senior Advisor Marty Chen recently participated in an Institute of Development Studies webinar, “The COVID-19 crisis facing informal...

The Informal Economy Revisited – landmark book in open access

This open-access book, edited by Martha Chen and Françoise Carré, brings together leading scholars to investigate recent conceptual shifts,...

Informal Workers in the COVID-19 Crisis: A global picture of sudden impact and long-term risk

In an immediate response to COVID-19, WIEGO conducted a rapid assessment to understand how the pandemic and the related public health measures...