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Informal economy

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Community & Development

How Top Manta co-op helps Barcelona’s street vendors formalise

April 1, 2025
Anca Voinea

Set up in 2017, the co-op sells clothes, accessories and sportswear made by migrants

Worker co-ops

Textile co-ops paying the price of Milei’s austerity in Argentina

February 10, 2025
Anca Voinea

Informal workers abandoned by the state are organising co-ops with union support

Community

Sewa, the union empowering informal women workers through co-ops

January 3, 2025
Anca Voinea

Anca Voinea reports from a two-day tour of Sewa, the women's co-op federation which has become…

Development

Cross-border traders finding strength in co-operatives

February 7, 2024
Alice Toomer-McAlpine

The co-op model offers protection and chance to pool resources for women trading between Rwanda and…

Sector

Co-ops used to formalise economy in Senegal

February 6, 2024
Alice Toomer-McAlpine

The ILO highlights how its work is supporting Senegal's economic development through the 'strategic use of…

Community & Development

Lagos conference to explore social protection for informal economy workers

June 16, 2023
Anca Voinea

The role of co-operatives will be central to discussions about the social and solidarity economy, in…