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  • Technical Briefs

    Paying Waste Pickers for Environmental Services: A Critical Examination of Options Proposed in Brazil

    This Brief synthesizes the main conclusions of the research and the methodology proposed by the Brazilian Institute for Applied Economic...

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  • Research Reports

    Home Work in Selected Latin American Countries: A Comparative View

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  • Research Reports

    Wages and Employment in International Recessions: Recent Latin American Experience

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  • Research Reports

    Executive Summary – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Street Vendors

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  • Research Reports

    Informal Economy Monitoring Study Sector Report: Waste Pickers

    Waste pickers are one of the three urban informal worker groups – along with street vendors and home-based workers – who are the focus of...

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Informality and Inclusive Green Growth

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  • Research Reports

    Certification of Occupational Skills

    This document emphasizes the transformation of the waste management model and the labor certification process, which is a recognition of...

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  • Resource Documents

    Promoting Decent Work for Domestic Workers: Lessons From Five Countries

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Street vendors at the border: From political spectacle to bureaucratic iron cage

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  • Research Reports

    Unregulated work in the global city: Employment and labor violations in New York City

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