Theme: Urban Planning and Design

Waste & Citizenship Forum: Waste Pickers and the State

Note from WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference. 

One Man’s Trash Is Another Man’s Treasure: A Comparative Analysis of Property Rights in Solid Waste

In this paper, the author argues that any system of legal rules that tries to exclude the waste pickers from the waste value chain results...

Changes in Official Attitudes Towards Urban Agriculture in AccraAfrican Studies Quarterly

Street Vendors in the Global Urban Economy

The Struggle for the Streets: Processes of Exclusion and Inclusion of Street Traders in Durban, South Africa

Negotiating Formality: Informal Sector, Market, and State in Peru

Working Paper 14: Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Pakistan and Ravi Town, Lahore

The bulk of Pakistan’s workforce is unorganized, and the data available do not depict the true picture, particularly of the number of women...

Budget Brief 4: Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Brazil and Belo Horizonte

  This brief is part of the WIEGO Publication Series.   View list of all WIEGO briefs.

Securing Livelihoods: A Gendered Analysis of Support Interventions available to Street Traders in the Durban Metropolitan Area

Innovative Practices for the Urban Informal Economy

An expert group meeting was convened to discuss case studies of regulatory inform of the urban informal sector in six developing country...