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Working Papers
Informal Sector Integration and High Performance Recycling: Evidence from 20 Cities
The global informal recycling sector has come into focus as the base of the industrial value chain. With few exceptions, reports and articles...
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Technical Briefs
Major International Events and the Working Poor: Selected Lessons for Social Actors Stemming from the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa
This technical brief explores issues that arose before, during and after the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, with the aim of informing...
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Journal Articles
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...
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Policy Briefs
Housing Finance for Poor Working Women: Innovations of the Self-Employed Women’s Association in India
The Self-Employed Womens Association (SEWA) of India recognizes that the home is a paramount productive asset, especially for poor women....
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Journal Articles
Patterns and Practices of Spatial Transformation in Non-Metros: The Case of Tiruchengode
Urban transformation in Tiruchengode town in Tamil Nadu has been predominantly driven by processes internal to it. It has been driven by...
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Research Reports
Informalidad y Urbanismo Social en Medellín
La ciudad de Medellín, después de unas décadas de aislamiento e involución caracterizadas por altos índices de inseguridad, violencia y segregación...
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Journal Articles
The urban land debate in the global South: New avenues for researchGeoforum
Abstract: The global ‘land grab’ debate is going urban and needs a specific conceptual framework to analyze the diverse modalities through...
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Journal Articles
Displacement and the New Spaces for Informal Trade in the Latin American City Centre
Using evidence from Cusco, Peru, the paper examines the effects of the planned displacement of informal traders from city-centre streets....
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Journal Articles
Disabling governance: Privatisation of city markets and implications for vendors‟ associations in Kampala, Uganda
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Briefs
Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Philippines and Quezon City
This brief is part of the WIEGO Publication Series. View list of all WIEGO briefs.
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