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  • Working Papers

    Presupuesto y Economía Informal en Brasil, Pakistán, Perú y las Filipinas

    Este documento reúne resultados de cuatro estudios de países sobre el análisis presupuestario de la economía informal.

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  • Journal Articles

    Associations and Activism: Mobilization of Urban Informal Workers in Costa Rica and Nicaragua

    Abstract:

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  • Policy Briefs

    Integrating Informal Workers into Selective Waste Collection: The Case of Belo Horizonte, Brazil

    This Briefing Note explores the origin and key elements of public policy focused on the integration of waste pickers in Belo Horizonte, Brazil....

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  • Research Reports

    Reporte del Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas de Chile

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

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  • Research Reports

    The Informal Economy: Latino Enterprises at the Margins

    FIELD (The Microenterprise Fund for Innovation, Effectiveness, Learning and Dissemination) is a program of the Aspen Institute.

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  • Journal Articles

    Organising home-based workers in the global economy: an action-research approachDevelopment in Practice

    Abstract: This article describes an action-research project which has the multiple objectives of mapping the range of home-based work in...

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  • Research Reports

    The Urban Informal Workforce: Waste Pickers/Recyclers

    These findings are based on research conducted in 2012 as part of the Informal Economy Monitoring Study (IEMS), a project under Inclusive...

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  • Working Papers

    Forging a New Conceptualization of “The Public” in Waste Management

    The involvement of informal workers in municipal service delivery is generally theorized and studied as a key component of a neoliberal privatization...

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  • Research Reports

    Growth, Employment and Social Cohesion in the Dominican Republic

    Background paper for ILO-IMF Tripartite Consultation on Job-rich and Inclusive Growth in the Dominican Republic.

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  • Journal Articles

    Revanchist Urbanism Heads South: The Regulation of Indigenous Beggars and Street Vendors in Ecuador.Antipode

    Much of the discussion surrounding neoliberal urbanism has been empirically grounded in the North. This paper shifts the discussion south...

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