Urban Planning and Design

Street Vendors Organising: The Case of the Women’s Network (Red de Mujeres), Lima, Peru

This Briefing Note describes the background, objectives, activities and achievements of the Women’s Network as an example of better practice...

Progrès des Femmes à Travers le Monde 2005, Le: Les Femmes le Travail et la Pauvreté

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Informal Employment and Development: Patterns of Inclusion and ExclusionThe European Journal of Development Research

At present, there is renewed interest in the informal economy worldwide. This renewed interest has rekindled some of the old debates about...

Home-Based Workers and Cities

This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO.   Abstract: This paper explores the impact of local government...

Informality, Housing and Work: The View from Indian Cities

This document will focus on answering a specific set of questions concerning linking informality, housing and work.

Informal Cities and the Contestation of Public Space: The Case of Bogotá’s Street Vendors

Changes in Official Attitudes Towards Urban Agriculture in AccraAfrican Studies Quarterly

The paradoxes of informalizing street trade in the Latin American city

Lissette Aliaga Linares, a WIEGO member, compares the approaches to regulating street trade in Lima & Bogota in this paper.

The Urban Informal Sector: Critical Perspectives on Employment and Housing Policies

No Cushion to Fall Back On: The Global Economic Crisis and Informal Workers

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