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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... Read More
Overview of the Legal Framework for Inclusion of Informal Recyclers in Solid Waste Management in Brazil Brazil has replaced repressive policies on waste picking with new inclusive policies that give legal backing to redistributive measures and... Read More
Housing and Urban Service Needs of Home-Based Workers: Findings From a Seven-Country Study This policy brief considers linkages between urban infrastructure and livelihood issues for home-based workers. It is based on a series of... Read More
Statistics on Street Vendors and Market Traders in Metropolitan Lima and Urban Peru Based on this survey, the brief reviews trends in street vending and market trade in Lima and in urban Peru between 2004 and 2015. It also... Read More
Defining and Categorizing Organizations of Informal Workers in Developing and Developed Countries This organizing brief, written for researchers and activists concerned about informal workers, aims to capture the full range of organizational... Read More
Waste Pickers and Carbon Finance: Issues to Consider This Technical Brief clarifies the requirements for carbon finance mechanisms to provide an assessment of whether informal waste picker membership-based... Read More
The Municipal Waste and Citizenship Forum: A Platform for Social Inclusion and Participation A critical source of success of the Belo Horizonte model of including waste pickers into urban plans has been the high level of organization... Read More
Vending in Public Space: The Case of Bangkok This brief reviews cultural, economic, political and other broad social foundations of vending in Bangkok’s public space. It also examines... Read More
Measuring Informal Employment in South Africa: The New Quarterly Labour Force Survey This briefing note discusses how the changes introduced in the Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) will affect Read More
Women and Men Operators of Enterprises in India’s Informal Sector Women and Men Operators of Enterprises in India’s Informal Sector presents a profile of non-agricultural, informal sector (proprietary, sole... Read More
