Urban Planning and Design

Integrating Informal Workers into Selective Waste Collection: The Case of Belo Horizonte, Brazil

This Briefing Note explores the origin and key elements of public policy focused on the integration of waste pickers in Belo Horizonte, Brazil....

Chapter 5 – Tackling Urban Management Issues: A Cooperative Effort

Coping with Crises: Lingering Recession, Rising Inflation, and the Informal Workforce

This report proposes a a number of policies to help address the existing vulnerabilities of workers in the informal economy and minimize...

Report on Scrap Collectors, Scrap Traders, and Recycling Enterprises in Pune

Informal Employment and Development: Patterns of Inclusion and ExclusionThe European Journal of Development Research

At present, there is renewed interest in the informal economy worldwide. This renewed interest has rekindled some of the old debates about...

Editorial: Urban livelihoods: reframing theory and policy

This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO. This paper, which also serves as an introduction to this...

The New Urban Agenda: Prospects and Challenges

“The New Urban Agenda: Prospects and Challenges has been published with the objective of moving forward conversations on a few ideas,...

Organizando en las calles: Un estudio de recicladores en las calles de Ciudad del Cabo

Un resumen basado en el informe de Koni Benson y Nanadi Vanga-Mgijima, Grupo Internacional de Investigación e Información Laboral

Nothing about us without us: A case study of the dynamics of the informal workplace in Mitchell’s Plain Town Centre

This research paper is part of the Development and Labour Monograph Series.

Construindo a cidadania: avanços e limites do Projeto de Coleta Seletiva em parceria com a ASMARE