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  • Home-based potter in Bangladesh Statistical Briefs

    Home-Based Workers in Bangladesh: A Statistical Profile

    In Bangladesh, there were about 3.2 million non-agricultural and 7.4 million agricultural home-based workers, according to the 2016/17 Labour...

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  • Woman waste picker in India Statistical Briefs

    Informal Workers in India: A Statistical Profile

    Employment in India is overwhelmingly informal: 90 per cent of all workers are employed under informal arrangements nationally; in urban...

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  • Statistical Briefs

    Informal Workers in Mexico: A Statistical Snapshot

    This Brief provides statistics on the informal economy and categories of informal workers in Mexico. The data in this brief are based on...

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  • Statistical Briefs

    Home-Based Workers in India: A Statistical Profile

    This statistical snapshot of India’s home-based workers offers data on the size of this workforce, age, sex, type of industry and more. Data...

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  • Statistical Briefs

    Informal Workers in Ghana: A Statistical Snapshot

    This brief details recent data on informal workers in Greater Accra, urban Ghana and Ghana overall, and looks at the data:

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  • Home-based worker and street vendor in Bangkok 2015 Statistical Briefs

    Informal Workers in Urban Thailand: A Statistical Snapshot

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

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Measuring Social Change: Performance and Accountability in a Complex World

    The social sector is undergoing a major transformation. We are witnessing an explosion in efforts to deliver social change, a burgeoning...

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  • Working Papers

    The Informal Economy in Greater Buenos Aires: A Statistical Profile

    This paper interrogates the nature of the informal economy in Greater Buenos Aires. It takes advantage of the existence of a unique dataset,...

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  • Research Reports

    Women and Men in the Informal Economy 2010 – a Statistical Picture: Plans for an Updated Report

    Paper for session III-3 at Hanoi Research Meeting, The Informal Sector and Informal Employment: Statistical Measurement, Economic Implications...

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  • Statistical Briefs

    Statistics on Home-Based Workers in Nepal

    This brief presents estimates of homebased workers in Nepal, certain characteristics of their work, their age distribution and family composition....

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