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				Inclusive Cities: What Have We Learned? 
				
									In Bangkok, Samlion Jintapo now runs a small grocery shop from her home. She used to supplement her income from the shop by selling cosmetics...
				
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				Ciudades Inclusivas: ¿Qué hemos aprendido? 
				
									En Bangkok, Samlion Jintapo, lleva una pequeña tienda de verduras desde su hogar. Ella solía suplementar sus ingresos de la tienda vendiendo...
				
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				Just Recycling: Changing Minds about Waste Pickers 
				
									Since 2007, WIEGO has worked with waste picker groups around the world that organize and represent people who support themselves by selling...
				
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				Photo Essay Part II: Hidden Workers in Sunder Nagari 
				
									This is the second of a two-part essay on women home-based workers in Sunder Nagari slum in Delhi. Read part one here.When we visited Sunder...
				
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				Photo Essay Part I: Home as a Place of Work 
				
									This is the first of a two-part essay on women home-based workers in Sunder Nagari slum in Delhi. Read part two here.
				
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				In the Developing World, Waste Can Be a Vital Resource 
				
									This piece originally appeared in the Huffington Post as part of the series “What’s Working: Sustainable Development Goals. 
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				Where Women are Leaders: Two Global Victories for the Working Poor 
				
									Ela Bhatt is Founder of SEWA (Self-Employed Women’s Association) and the Founding Chair of WIEGO (Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing...
				
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				Donde las mujeres son líderes: dos victorias globales de las trabajadoras y trabajadores pobres 
				
									Por Ela Bhatt
Fundadora de la Asociación de Mujeres Auto empleadas 
(SEWA, por sus siglas en inglés)
Presidenta fundadora, WIEGO 
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				Wither the “Labor” in Labor Day? 
				
									For many of us, the word “informal employment” conjures up images of street vendors, rickshaw drivers, or casual laborers in agriculture—all...
				
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				Inclusive Growth and the Informal Economy 
				
									There is a growing consensus in the international community that economic growth needs to be inclusive: that it needs to be broad-based and...
				
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