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Hosted by Wiego · government · EN · 55 episodes
Globally, 2 billion people work in the informal economy. This means that 61% of workers rely on work that offers little pay and few protections. Women informal workers, such as domestic workers, home-based workers, street vendors and waste pickers are at the base of the economic pyramid with the highest risk of poverty. Public policies and social protection schemes often do not consider these workers, leaving them vulnerable to income losses and struggling to cope after an event or shock. In this monthly podcast we will discuss some of the most pressing issues related to social protection from the perspective of informal workers, including debates around the future of work, demographic changes and the informal economy, as well as social services, like child care and health that can protect informal workers’ incomes. Subscribe to the “Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection” to learn more about WIEGO’s cutting-edge research and hear from informal workers organisations about the d
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Signup to Generate a PitchGlobally, 2 billion people work in the informal economy. This means that 61% of workers rely on work that offers little pay and few protections. Women informal workers, such as domestic workers, home-based workers, street vendors and waste pickers are at the base of the economic pyramid with the highest risk of poverty.
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection is hosted by Wiego. The show has published 55 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "#47 Learnings from WIEGO Social Protection Podcast" (2 April 2026, 21 minutes), "#46 Expanding social security delivery to informal workers" (24 October 2025, 26 minutes), and "#45 Workers-led delivery of Healthcare and Social Protection" (12 August 2025, 23 minutes).
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection publishes roughly every few months, with episodes averaging 31 minutes across 55 episodes.
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Wiego hosts Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection, a government show with 55 episodes published.
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Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection
Today, our show reaches its final episode. So we decided to do something different to mark this date. This time around, I will be the guest and I will reflect about the learnings I have made over the past 7 years of...
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection
In this episode, we conclude the building block of delivery and provision of social protection from our social protection solar system. After discussing the role of informal workers’ organizations in the delivery of...
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection
In this episode, we resume the building block of our social protection solar system on the topic of delivery and provision of social protection. In this second episode of the series, we will turn to India, to understand...
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection
In this episode we take a pause from the discussion around delivery and provision of social protection benefits and take a fresh look at the challenges to finance social protection in a time of very deep transformations...
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection
In this episode, we start a new building block of our social protection solar system with the first part of the topic on delivery and provision of social protection. We will be looking at the innovations in the delivery...
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection
In the fourth and last episode of the governance building block we dive into the discussion of social dialogue and social protection for informal workers. But what does social dialogue actually mean? How can in be used...
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection
In the third episode of the governance building block we move on to the discussion of legal frameworks and social protection. How can legal provisions of participation, access to information, transparency and equality...
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection
In the second episode of the governance building block we continue to discuss the issues surrounding digitization and social protection. This time, we take a political economy perspective to understand the interests...
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection
In this episode, we start a new building block of our social protection solar system with the first episode on the topic of governance. We have invited two guests to lay the groundwork for this block, to help us...
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection
In the third episode of the registration block we travel to Latin America to take a regional overview of this issue regarding domestic workers. To learn the challenges these workers face to be registered, the positive...
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection
In episode five of the systems’ mapping, building blocks approach, we continue to explore the topic of registration. This time, we look closely at the Cambodian IDPoor programme, to understand to what extent a...
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection
And we start the year with the first episode of the second building block of our new season, in which we will discuss the issue of registration. How is digital technology helping to include informal workers into social...
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection
This is the third and last episode of the financing building block. Previously, we discussed alternative ways to finance social protection extension for waste pickers in India and Argentina, and the struggle to finance...
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection
The current episode is the second of this new season. We will continue to look at the issue of financing, which was the topic of the first episode of the system’s mapping series. We will talk about a very important...
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection
WIEGO inaugura una nueva etapa de su podcast. A partir de este episodio, vamos a comprender mejor las piezas del sistema de protección social, para poder mejor comprender los retos, oportunidades y dificultades que...
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection
WIEGO starts a new phase of its podcast. From this episode onwards, we will gain a better understanding of the pieces of the social protection system, in order to better understand the challenges, opportunities and...
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection
In 2021, WIEGO has launched the project “Challenging the global orthodoxies which undermine Universal Social Protection”. In a nutshell, the project aimed to examine some of the dominant ideas in the field of social...
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection
The Covid-19 pandemic has affected the world in many ways. People all around the globe had to adapt to this new reality, and it was no different for informal workers leaders that struggle to improve their organizational...
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection
In India, the government has set a huge undertaking: to register 380 million informal workers on a new database, so that it could allow the delivery of social security payments. This database, called e-Shram, was...
Informal Economy Podcast: Social Protection
Social and Solidarity Economy has got into a very high place in the international agenda. This year, SSE, as it is called, was the theme of the International Labour Conference, in which workers representatives...
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