Publications on informal economy

  1. Publication

    Improved working conditions, productivity and income for formalized women tanners

    26 October 2021

    This document is part of a series of case studies by the Enterprises Department of the ILO. Each case study presents one or several approaches that contribute to enterprise formalization across the world.

  2. Publication

    Certification and access to markets as an incentive to formalize

    26 October 2021

    This document is part of a series of case studies by the Enterprises Department of the ILO. Each case study presents one or several approaches that contribute to enterprise formalization across the world.

  3. Publication

    Promoting business linkages with small enterprises as an incentive to formalize

    26 October 2021

    This document is part of a series of case studies by the Enterprises Department of the ILO. Each case study presents one or several approaches that contribute to enterprise formalization across the world.

  4. Publicación

    Gender perspective in child labour - Executive summary

    25 October 2021

    This study seeks to understand, from a gende rperspective, how the living conditions of families,how the professional careers of adults and how the sexual division of labour in households affect the associations that Children and Adolescents(C&As) establish with labour and how they affect the construction of expectations and imaginaries with respect to the future labour opportunities of C&As.

  5. ILO Working paper 41

    Supporting decent work and the transition towards formalization through technology-enhanced labour inspection

    21 October 2021

  6. Publication

    100 Years of Public Works in the ILO

    21 October 2021

    This book chronicles the breadth and depth of ILO’s engagement in Public Works Programmes (PWPs) over the last century. It describes the journey, the ideas and the innovations that have emerged in a shifting global economic, social and political context. PWPs continue to be widely used and supported by the ILO and it is hoped that lessons that have been handed down will be useful in informing future policy-making and programme design.

  7. Informal economy

    Angola: Study on the migration from the informal for formal economy

    20 October 2021

    This report produced by the Bureaux for Employers’ Activities (ACT/EMP) of the ILO with the Angolan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIA) is seeking to contribute to design a strategy to enable the gradual transition from the informal to the formal economy in Angola

  8. E-formalization regional report

    E-formalization in Europe

    18 October 2021

  9. Publication

    Prevention and mitigation of Covid-19 in the informal economy through safety and health: An action-oriented tool for supporting street and market vendors

    14 October 2021

    This tool is addressed to the public authorities, workers’ and employers’ organizations, informal economy organizations and other stakeholders, who are willing to help street and market vendors improve their safety and health conditions to prevent the risk of contagion and mitigate the impact of COVID-19 at work.

  10. Publication

    Progressive access to finance and support to encourage enterprise formalization: Experiences from Egypt and Chile

    05 October 2021

    This document is part of a series of case studies by the Enterprises Department of the ILO. Each case study presents one or several approaches that contribute to enterprise formalization across the world.