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Working in Warwick: Including Street Traders in Urban Plans

The book documents the lessons learned from the Warwick Junction Project, an inner city renewal initiative which sensitively integrated street...

“I, Too, am Delhi”: People’s Campaign Calls for Inclusion in Indian Capital’s Master Plan

India’s capital city is preparing its roadmap for the future – a new master planning document that sets out the vision for Delhi for two...

6 out of 10 workers are informally employed – many pay with their safety

Sally Roever, WIEGO’s International Coordinator, discusses how governments can work with informal workers to make the world of work...

Bangkok’s Street Vending Ban: A Summary of the Research on the Social and Economic Impacts

WIEGO in the World Newsletter

  July 2019  English  |  en Español |  en Français

Literature Survey: Mega-Events and the Working Poor, with a Special Reference to the 2010 FIFA World Cup

This literature survey draws together and synthesizes research that has been done on mega events, with a particular focus on the 2010 World...

S’organiser dans la rue: une étude des récupérateurs de rue à Cape Town

Un sommaire tiré du rapport de Koni Benson et de Nandi Vanqa-Mgijima, International Labour Research and Information Group (ILRIG)

Changes in Official Attitudes Towards Urban Agriculture in AccraAfrican Studies Quarterly

Urban Informality: Towards an Epistemology of Planning

The study of cities is today marked by a paradox: much of the urban growth of the 21st century is taking place in the developing world, but...

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