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Research Reports
Older Informal Workers in the COVID-19 Crisis
COVID-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy Policy Insights No. 5 Key findings and policy recommendations pertaining to older informal workers...
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Policy Briefs
The Costs of Insecurity: Domestic Workers’ Access to Social Protection and Services in Dhaka, Bangladesh (Bengali)
Domestic workers in Bangladesh carry the heavy cost of inadequate investment in the provision of social protection and services and survey...
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Policy Briefs
Domestic Workers, Risk & Social Protection in Delhi National Capital Region
Delhi, India’s capital and a bustling metropolis, is home to many migrant workers from across the country. For most women migrants, domestic...
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Research Reports
Informal Workers and the Social Protection Response to COVID-19: Who got relief? How? And did it make a difference?
Key findings and policy recommendations pertaining to COVID-19 food and cash relief measures for informal workers based on research undertaken...
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Policy Briefs
Domestic Workers, Risk and Social Protection in Nepal
Most domestic workers in Nepal are employed in live-out arrangements with multiple employers while others, many of them adolescent girls,...
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Policy Briefs
The Costs of Insecurity: Domestic Workers’ Access to Social Protection and Services in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Domestic workers in Bangladesh carry the heavy cost of inadequate investment in the provision of social protection and services and survey...
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Working Papers
Occupational Health and Safety and the Poorest
Occupationally related injury and illness is a major, but largely under-explored, potential source of worker vulnerability. This study investigates...
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Working Papers
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...
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Policy Briefs
Health Insurance in India: The Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana
This policy brief explores the challenges faced by India’s poor workers in using the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), the largest...
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Policy Briefs
The Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme: Assessing Access by Informal Workers
In 2003 the Ghanaian government introduced, a National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) – an, innovative and large scale attempt to extend,...
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