Urban Planning and Design

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,...

Firmes Multinationales, Commerce Ambulant et Mobilité à Mexico

Il sapere urbano del clasificadores (The knowledge of urban recyclers) Lo Squaderno Urban Knowledges, Explorations in Space and Society

Urban Informal Workers and the Green Economy – Fact Sheet

Fact SheetProduced for the Rio+20 international conference in 2012, this fact sheet details how sectors within the informal economy are playing...

WIEGO Brochure (français)

              Available in English here.

WIEGO en el Mundo: Boletín Informativo, Junio de 2014

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