Livelihoods

The Dual Economy Revisited

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...

Articulating Growth in the Urban Spectrum

Participatory Training to Improve Safety and Health in Small Construction Sites in Some Countries in Asia: Development and Application of the WISCON Training Program

Abstract: A participatory training program, Work Improvement in Small Construction Sites, was developed to provide practical support measures...

Waste & Citizenship Forum: Waste Pickers and the State

Note from WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference. 

SEWU and Sikhula Tips on Organising Informal Workers

Producing Privatization: Re-articulating Race, Gender, Class and Space

Addressing inequality and economic marginalisation

Cape Town: Institute for African Alternatives

Co-optation, Competition and Resistance: State and Street Vendors in Mexico City

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Reconfiguring Space, Mobilizing Livelihood: Street Vending, Legality, and Work in the Philippines

In the Philippines, the liberalization of the country’s economy has meant increasing rural to urban migration and dramatic growth in informal...