Urban Planning and Design

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,...

Why the Poor Need Property Rights

Urban Informality: Towards an Epistemology of Planning

The study of cities is today marked by a paradox: much of the urban growth of the 21st century is taking place in the developing world, but...

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)

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WIEGO en el Mundo: Boletín Informativo, Junio de 2014

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Planarchie: How street vendors and urban planners can work together

This blog post is by Sally Roever, WIEGO’s Urban Research Director. This is part of a series of articles on urban livelihoods focused...