Programme: Urban Policies Programme

How to Analyse Government Budgets from an Informal Economy Perspective

Budget analysis is a powerful policy analysis tool. This technical brief provides a guide to conducting an informal economy budget analysis...

Foreign Street Traders in Inner City Durban: Survey Results and Policy Dilemmas

Innovative Practices for the Urban Informal Economy

An expert group meeting was convened to discuss case studies of regulatory inform of the urban informal sector in six developing country...

The Urban Informal Workforce: Street Vendors

These findings are based on research conducted in 2012 as part of the Informal Economy Monitoring Study (IEMS), a project under Inclusive...

Sumário Executivo: Vendedoras e Vendedores de Rua da Região Metropolitana de Lima

City Report – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Home-based Workers in Lahore, Pakistan

Executive Summary: Informal Economy Monitoring Study Sector Report: Waste Pickers

The Informal Economy Monitoring Study (IEMS) is designed to provide credible, grounded evidence of the range of driving forces, both positive...

The New Urban Agenda: Prospects and Challenges

“The New Urban Agenda: Prospects and Challenges has been published with the objective of moving forward conversations on a few ideas,...

Constraints to Growth and Employment in Durban: Evidence from the Informal Economy

Working Paper 14: Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Pakistan and Ravi Town, Lahore

The bulk of Pakistan’s workforce is unorganized, and the data available do not depict the true picture, particularly of the number of women...