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  • Research Reports

    Sumário Executivo: Relatório do Setor Estudo de Monitoramento de Economia Informal: Catadores

     

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  • Research Reports

    WIEGO Report on the Policy Environment of Informal Urban Waste Pickers and Artisanal Mine Workers in Colombia

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  • Research Reports

    The Formal and Informal Sectors in Colombia: Country Case Study on Labour Market Segmentation

    Employment Working Paper No.146

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Climate Change and Informal Recycling: An NGO and a Private Sector Partnership in Bogotá

    This chapter illuminates the crucial and often unrecognized role that developing world informal recyclers play in reducing the risks associated...

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  • Journal Articles

    Labor Market Rigidities and Informality in ColombiaEconomía

    Informality has been at the center of the economic debate in Colombia as a result of the high levels prevalent in the country and its substantial...

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  • Research Reports

    Review of the Mixed Survey in the Colombian Informal Sector

    Prepared for ILO-Latin America/WIEGO Latin America Regional Workshop on Statistics on the Informal Economy, Santiago, Chile

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  • Journal Articles

    Earnings Determinants for Self-Employed Women and Men in the Informal Economy: The Case of Bogotá, ColombiaInternational Social Science Review

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  • Research Reports

    Reporte de Participante Nacional – Colombia

    Taller de Estadísticas del Sector Informal en América Latina (OIT/WIEGO)

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  • Journal Articles

    The Efficiency of Informality: Quantifying Greenhouse Gas Reductions from Informal Recycling in Bogotá, Colombia

    Abstract: The dual challenges of increasing urbanization and consumption are centered in cities in the Global South, where growing waste...

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  • Journal Articles

    Self-Employed Proletarians in an Informal Factory: The Case of Cali’s Garbage DumpWorld Development (Pergamon Press)

    Summary: This paper presents data on the organization of work among the scavengers on the garbage dump in the city of Cali, Colombia. Garbage...

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