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The Labour Day Manifesto

May 3, 2026

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Middle East: Oil, Institutions, and the Informality Gap

Apr 29, 2026

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10 min read

Latin America and the Middle-Income Trap

Apr 22, 2026

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11 min read

Africa: The 85.8% Frontier

Apr 15, 2026

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21 min read

Asia-Pacific: The Epicenter

Apr 8, 2026

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18 min read

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The Labour Day Manifesto

Transitioning 2.1 Billion Informal Workers

May 3, 2026

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16 min read

Middle East: Oil, Institutions, and the Informality Gap

Why hydrocarbon revenues and sovereign wealth have not produced institutional labor-market coverage.

Apr 29, 2026

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10 min read

Latin America and the Middle-Income Trap

Why Economic Growth Fails to Formalize Latin American Labor Markets.

Apr 22, 2026

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11 min read

Africa: The 85.8% Frontier

On a continent where only 14.2% of workers have formal status, informality is not the exception. It is the economy. But Africa's mobile money revolution and demographic trajectory are rewriting the rules.

Apr 15, 2026

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21 min read

Asia-Pacific: The Epicenter

More than one billion informal workers. Over half the global informal workforce. The region where GDP growth and informality coexist at a scale that defies conventional development logic.

Apr 8, 2026

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18 min read

The World InformalEconomy Summit

The Labour Day Manifesto

Middle East: Oil, Institutions, and the Informality Gap

Latin America and the Middle-Income Trap

Africa: The 85.8% Frontier

Asia-Pacific: The Epicenter

The Labour Day Manifesto

Middle East: Oil, Institutions, and the Informality Gap

Latin America and the Middle-Income Trap

Africa: The 85.8% Frontier

Asia-Pacific: The Epicenter

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