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  • COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy: Informal Workers in Delhi, India

    COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy is a WIEGO-led 12-city longitudinal study that assesses the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on specific...

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    COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy: Informal Workers in Durban, South Africa

    COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy is a WIEGO-led 12-city longitudinal study that assesses the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on specific...

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  • Warwick Junction, Durban, South Africa. Photo: Jane Barrett Project

    Coping in Crisis: South African Workers’ Lives in COVID-19

    Background There is widespread recognition, both internationally and in South Africa, that the measures to curb the spread of COVID-19 have...

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    COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy: Informal Workers in Ahmedabad, India

    COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy is a WIEGO-led 12-city longitudinal study that assesses the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on specific...

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    COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy: Informal Workers in Accra, Ghana

    COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy is a WIEGO-led 12-city longitudinal study that assesses the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on specific...

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  • Ernestine Mohloboli_Johannesburg reclaimer Worker Story

    The Art of Recovery: A Johannesburg Reclaimer’s Story

    Ernestine Mohloboli, a former artist who now makes a living collecting waste in Johannesburg, has long been a proponent of organizing reclaimers....

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    View from the Mountain: A South African Waste Picker’s Uphill Battle during COVID-19

    When COVID-19 hit, it was South African waste picker Justina Kgoele’s resourcefulness that got her through the worst of the crisis....

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    COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy Study: City Fact Sheets

    City Fact Sheets: 1 – Accra (Ghana) COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy in Accra, Ghana: Lasting Impacts and an Agenda for Recovery...

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    COVID-19 Crisis Study January 06, 2021

    WIEGO in The Economist

    “Someone from the public or the government doesn’t wake up one morning and think ‘Let’s think about the waste pickers’,” she says. “These...

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    COVID-19 Crisis Study January 06, 2021

    Three Examples of Why Workers’ Voices Matter During the COVID-19 Crisis

    Sixty per cent of the world’s workforce consists of informal workers. Their voices are crucial to unpack the hardship, injustice, and possibility...

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