Urban Planning and Design

Health and Sanitation is an Economic Right as Well–Just Ask Ghanaian Food Sellers

WIEGO Researcher Laura Alfers investigates the chop bar owners of Accra. Whereas governments are quick to scapegoat them for diseases borne...

Territorial Legends: Politics of Indigeneity, Migration, and Urban Citizenship in Pasighat

Exploring how the policy of protection of indigenous people works on the ground in Pasighat, a town in Arunachal Pradesh, this paper brings...

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...

The Urban Informal Economy: Towards more inclusive cities

This article was written by WIEGO’s International Coordinator, Marty Chen.

Waste & Citizenship Forum: Waste Pickers and the State

Note from WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference. 

The Roadmap to Sustainable and Inclusive Solid Waste Systems A Tale of two Cities

The chapter is on pages 41-47.

Waste management and the workplace

Street Trade in Latin America: Demographic Trends, Legal Issues, and Vending Organizations in Six Cities

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Flexibility, Employment and Labor Market Reforms in India

May 27, 2006

Street Trade in Latin America: Demographic Trends, Legal Issues and Vending Organizations in Six Cities