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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... Read More
Major International Events and the Working Poor: Selected Lessons for Social Actors Stemming from the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa This technical brief explores issues that arose before, during and after the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, with the aim of informing... Read More
Making Agricultural Value Chain Programmes Work for Workers: A Practical Guide for Development Donors and Practitioners This guide, aimed at development donors and practitioners, seeks to improve the poverty, economic and gender impacts of agricultural value... Read More
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
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
How to Assess Security of Tenure and Emulate Mortgages for Financing Semi-Formal Homes: Lessons from Mahila Housing SEWA Trust Nohn and Bhatt’s Technical Brief examines how the Mahila Housing Trust (MHT) has tackled the issue of housing loans in contexts of tenure... Read More
