Focal Cities

Informal Workers in Urban Thailand: A Statistical Snapshot

This brief contains estimates on informal workers in Bangkok and other urban centres in Thailand.

Mexico City Recognizes the Rights of Informal Waste Pickers

On July 15th 2016, Mexico City’s Human Rights Commission (CDHDF) issued Recommendation 7/2016, named “Omissions in Mexico City’s urban solid...

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...

If Street Food Disappears — Projecting the Cost for Consumers in Bangkok

Sumário Executivo – Estudo de Monitoramento da Economia Informal: Catadoras e Catadores em Belo Horizonte, Brasil

Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Peru and Metropolitan Lima

  This brief is part of the WIEGO Publication Series.   View list of all WIEGO briefs.

Recomendações para Políticas – Estudo de Monitoramento da Economia Informal – Catadores de Belo Horizonte: Catadores de Belo Horizonte: Realidades e Recomendações

Organising Street Vendors: “Gente de Confiar” Radio Progamme, Lima, Peru

An authentically democratic community requires open channels of communication between citizens. Street markets offer a natural setting for...

Street Vendors Organising: The Case of the Women’s Network (Red de Mujeres), Lima, Peru

This Briefing Note describes the background, objectives, activities and achievements of the Women’s Network as an example of better practice...

The possibilities for collective organization of informal port workers in Tema, Ghana

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