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  • Research Reports

    Exposure Dialogue Programme – Personal Reflection

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  • Journal Articles

    Formal Versus Informal Allocation of Land in a Commons: The Case of the Macarthur Park Sidewalk Vendors

    Analyzing patterns of formal and informal property rights among sidewalk vendors in the United States.

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  • Journal Articles

    Mediating from the margins: The role of intermediaries in facilitating participation in markets by poor producersSouth African Journal of Labour Relations

    Abstract: This article argues that the preponderance of market intermediaries is driven by two imprimaturs. The first relates to the global...

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  • Research Reports

    Domestic workers and Informality: Compliance with DecentWork for Domestic Workers as a Transgression to the Asymmetrical Law of the Home Workplace*

    The situation of informality addressed through invisibility and the consequent need to overcome the asymmetrical law of home-based work. ...

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Progrès des Femmes à Travers le Monde 2005, Le: Les Femmes le Travail et la Pauvreté

    Available in English here Disponible en español aquí Disponible en français ici   Plus d’informations est disponible sur le site de...

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  • Research Reports

    Exposure Dialogue Programme – Personal Reflection

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  • Journal Articles

    Regulatory Governance and the Informal Economy: Cross-National Comparisons

    This article examines the relationship between state regulation and the informal economy at the macro-level across a broad set of countries....

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Poverty, Legal Empowerment and Informal Business in South Africa

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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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  • Research Reports

    Informal Economic Strategies: Advocacy For Street Vendors In Brazil

    This paper is an introduction to informal labor; the politico-territorial characteristics of street vendor commerce in the city of Sao Paolo;...

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