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  • Working Papers

    Gestão de Resíduos Sólidos, Catadores, Participação e Cidadania – Novas Articulações?

    This paper traces back the origins of the conceptual framework Integrated Sustainable Solid Waste Management, and examines how this concept...

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  • Policy Briefs

    Visão geral dos Instrumentos Legais para a Inclusão de Recicladores Informais na Gestão de Resíduos Sólidos no Brasil

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  • Research Reports

    Informal Employment in Latin America: Movements over Business Cycles and the Effects of Worker Rights

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  • Research Reports

    Situação Social das Catadoras e dos Catadores de Material Reciclável e Reutilizável (Região Sudeste)

    Coordenação – Sandro Pereira Silva, Fernanda Lira Goes, Albino Rodrigues Alvarez   Relatórios sobre outras regiões: Centro-OesteNordeste NorteSul ...

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    The City Statute of Braxil: A Commentary

    This book traces the history of the land reform movement (The Urban Reform Forum ) and explains the advances of the City Statute and what...

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  • Research Reports

    Waste Pickers’ Recognition as Public Waste Managers in Colombia

    Presentation prepared for the Conference “Putting Public in Public Services: Research, Action and Equity in the Global South.”

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  • Research Reports

    Evolution of informal employment in the Dominican Republic

    According to official estimates, between 2005 and 2010, informal employment fell from 58,6% to 47,9% as a proportion of total non-agricultural...

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  • Research Reports

    Nos enfants ne reçoivent pas l’attention qu’ils méritent

    Cette publication présente les résultats d’une étude de recherche dans cinq villes examinant l’accès des travailleuses de l´informel...

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  • Policy Briefs

    Laws, Legitimacy and Ongoing Struggle: Lessons from Bolivian Policies on Domestic Workers’ Rights

    This Policy Brief explores domestic worker struggles in Bolivia.  It concentrates on laws and policies applied by the government of Evo Morales...

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  • Journal Articles

    RéplicaNexos

    Sin duda los problemas del crecimiento económico en México merecen estar en el centro de la discusión pública.

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