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    Waste Pickers in Brazil: A Statistical Profile

    Brazil is a leader in recognizing its more than 281,000 informal waste pickers in recycling chains and the country’s official statistics....

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    Home-Based Workers in Nepal, 2017/18: A Statistical Profile

    There are over 1.5 million home-based workers in Nepal who represent 22 per cent of total employment. About 1.01 million of these workers...

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    Home-Based Workers in the World: A Statistical Profile

    This brief presents key indicators on home-based workers and their work across the world. Globally, 260 million women and men produce goods...

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    Home-Based Workers in Pakistan: A Statistical Profile

    In recent years, home-based work has grown in Pakistan. This growth is due to an increase in the number of women doing home-based work, while...

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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Statistics

    City-level statistical snapshots for South Africa and Thailand available for the first time

    WIEGO’s Statistics Programme is launching a new set of Statistical Briefs that provide key indicators of informal employment and key...

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