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    Livelihoods

    Cinco reflexiones sobre el “futuro del trabajo”: un año de debates

    ¿Cómo será el trabajo en un futuro con robots y automatización? Este tema ha sido profundamente abordado durante el año, pero los debates...

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    Against the Odds: Resilience, Solidarity and Community Spirit Keep Warwick Markets Alive

    Photos by Jonathan TorgovnikAbout half-a-million people flow through Warwick Junction every day — every one of them a potential customer...

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    Access to Public Space

    How Cities Can Achieve Public Space for All

    Public space provides a window into the soul of a city. It is where collective urban life plays out — cycling to work, playing in a park,...

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    Livelihoods

    How a pyramid sketch redefined the informal economy — and the new data that is putting that 20-year-old idea to the test

      By Mike Rogan

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    Q&A: WIEGO’s New Urban Policies Director Talks Migration, 21st-century Cities and What Inspires Her Research

    This week, we sit down with WIEGO’s new Urban Policies Programme Director, Caroline Wanjiku Kihato, to learn more about her background and...

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    Senegal’s Dump Upgrading Doesn’t Have to Displace Waste Pickers

    The theme of World Habitat Day 2018 is municipal solid waste management and creating “waste wise cities.” In this article, WIEGO’s Waste...

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    Future of Work

    How the Draft WDR 2019 Got it Wrong: Rethinking and “Relinking” Social Protections for the Future of Work

    The World Bank’s recently released draft of the World Development Report (WDR) 2019 makes a controversial call to delink important social...

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    Informal workers and taxes: What “tax justice” looks like from below

    A growing tax justice movement has been exposing the shadowy ways in which elites and large trans-national corporations often avoid paying...

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    For Mayors: A Five-Step Guide to including Street Vendors in Global Cities

    By Carlin Carr

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    From Mozambique to Mexico, Domestic Workers are Fighting for their Rights — and Telling their Stories

    Domestic workers — those who cook, clean, sweep, and child-mind in private homes across the globe — face unusually challenging circumstances...

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