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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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