The Americas

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

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.

Catadores nas políticas públicas

Especial – Vida nas ruas População em situação de rua e o direito à Cidade

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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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...

Trabalho Informal e Direito à Cidade

The Economics of the Informal Sector: A Simple Model and Some Empirical Evidence from Latin America

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, No. WPS1727

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...

Sumário Executivo – Estudo de Monitoramento da Economia Informal: Catadoras e Catadores em Belo Horizonte, Brasil

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...