All posts in The Americas
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Research Reports
Measuring Non-Standard and Informal Employment in the United States Using Bureau of Labor Statistics Data
Paper for the WIEGO meeting on “Measuring Informal Employment in Developed Countries” 31 October-1 November 2008, Harvard University
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Journal Articles
On Castles and Commerce: Zoning Law and the Home-Business Dilemma
Discusses how zoning laws can prevent or enable the development of home-based businesses in the United States.
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Journal Articles
Catadores nas políticas públicas
Especial – Vida nas ruas População em situação de rua e o direito à Cidade
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Books & Book Chapters
The Globalisation of capital and its impact on the world of formal and informal work: Challenges for and responses from Argentine unions
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Technical Briefs
How to Analyse Government Budgets from an Informal Economy Perspective
Budget analysis is a powerful policy analysis tool. This technical brief provides a guide to conducting an informal economy budget analysis...
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Research Reports
Trabalho Informal e Direito à Cidade
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Research Reports
The Economics of the Informal Sector: A Simple Model and Some Empirical Evidence from Latin America
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, No. WPS1727
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Journal Articles
Contribution of cooperative sector recycling to greenhouse gas emissions reduction: A case study of Ribeirão Pires, BrazilWaste Management
Abstract: Solid waste, including municipal waste and its management, is a major challenge for most cities and among the key contributors...
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Research Reports
Sumário Executivo – Estudo de Monitoramento da Economia Informal: Catadoras e Catadores em Belo Horizonte, Brasil
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Journal Articles
Modernist Planning and the Foundations of Urban Violence in Latin AmericaBuilt Environment
This article suggests that both the origins and responses to urban violence in Latin America have involved some sort of state ordering of...
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