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Informal Economy Monitoring Study Sector Report: Waste Pickers

By , on February 01, 2016

Waste pickers are one of the three urban informal worker groups – along with street vendors and home-based workers – who are the focus of the 10-city Informal Economy Monitoring Study (IEMS).

The IEMS seeks to provide more recent and in-depth evidence of the contributions and challenges this group of informal workers faces across various cities. In addition, it looks at the way these workers respond to such challenges and how institutions help or hinder them in the process. The IEMS is a collaborative effort between researchers and membership-based organizations (MBOs) of informal workers in each city. Waste pickers from Belo Horizonte, Brazil; Bogota, Colombia; Pune, India; Nakuru, Kenya; and Durban, South Africa participated in the study.

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Dias, Sonia M., and Samson, Melanie. Informal Economy Monitoring Study Sector Report: Waste Pickers. , , . WIEGO, 2016. https://www.wiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Dias-Samson-IEMS-Waste-Picker-Sector-Report.pdfDias, S. M., and Samson, M. (2016). Informal Economy Monitoring Study Sector Report: Waste Pickers. , , . https://www.wiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Dias-Samson-IEMS-Waste-Picker-Sector-Report.pdfDias, Sonia M., and Samson, Melanie. "Informal Economy Monitoring Study Sector Report: Waste Pickers." WIEGO, 2016, .Dias Sonia M., and Samson Melanie. "Informal Economy Monitoring Study Sector Report: Waste Pickers." (2016). https://www.wiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Dias-Samson-IEMS-Waste-Picker-Sector-Report.pdfDias, S M, and Samson, M 2016, 'Informal Economy Monitoring Study Sector Report: Waste Pickers', , , . https://www.wiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Dias-Samson-IEMS-Waste-Picker-Sector-Report.pdfSonia M Dias, and Melanie Samson, 'Informal Economy Monitoring Study Sector Report: Waste Pickers' (2016). Dias S. M., and Samson M. Informal Economy Monitoring Study Sector Report: Waste Pickers. . 2016. https://www.wiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Dias-Samson-IEMS-Waste-Picker-Sector-Report.pdfDias, Sonia M., and Samson, Melanie. Informal Economy Monitoring Study Sector Report: Waste Pickers. . 2016. , . https://www.wiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Dias-Samson-IEMS-Waste-Picker-Sector-Report.pdf

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