Livelihoods

Sustainable Urban Livelihoods and Marketplace Social Capital: Crisis and Strategy in Petty Trade

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International trade and industrial upgrading in the apparel commodity chain

Understanding Gender Inequalities in Wages and Incomes in India

Associations and Activism: Mobilization of Urban Informal Workers in Costa Rica and Nicaragua

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The Informal Sector in Ghana Under Siege

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...

The Other Path of the Law

Analyzing how informal economic activity influences jurisprudence.  

“I carry people and goods across the border for a living”

Informal cross-border couriers (bomalayisha) have transported people and goods between Zimbabwe and South Africa for several decades.

Livelihood Strategies in African Cities: The Case of Residents in Bamenda

Abstract: This paper, in the African Review of Economics and Finance, analyses the livelihood strategies of residents in the city of Bamenda,...

Crítica ao Maneo Humano em Belo Horizonte