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Resource Documents Waste Pickers During the COVID-19 Crisis: Pathways of Impact and Recovery in Five Cities Key Findings A year after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, market shifts had exacerbated waste pickers’ structural disadvantages, and... Read More Statistical Briefs Informal Workers in Senegal: A Statistical Profile In Senegal, 84 per cent of employment is informal. This brief examines six groups of informal workers who comprised over three-quarters of... Read More Research Reports La crise de la COVID-19 et l’économie informelle : récupératrice·eur·s de déchets en emploi informel à Dakar “La crise de la COVID-19 et l’économie informelle, une étude longitudinale menée dans 12 villes, sous la conduite de WIEGO, se propose... Read More Research Reports Réduction des déchets dans les villes côtières grâce au recyclage inclusif (ReWCC): Étude de base sur les récupératrice.eur.s de la décharge de Mbeubeuss Le présent rapport s’articule autour du système formel de gestion des déchets, et le diagnostic du système par les acteurs s’appuie sur l’analyse... Read More Journal Articles The Informal Sector, Productivity, and Enforcement in West Africa: A Firm-level AnalysisReview of Development Economics This article is included in a special issue of the journal which includes 11 articles focused on informality. Read More Working Papers Informal Sector and Informal Employment: Overview of Data for 11 Cities in 10 Developing Countries This paper presents tabulations on informal employment in urban areas of 10 developing countries: Abidjan, Antananarivo, Bamako, Cotonou,... Read More Books & Book Chapters Seen but not heard: Urban voice and citizenship for street traders Abstract: Read More Journal Articles Sustainable Urban Livelihoods and Marketplace Social Capital: Crisis and Strategy in Petty Trade Abstract: Read More 1
Waste Pickers During the COVID-19 Crisis: Pathways of Impact and Recovery in Five Cities Key Findings A year after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, market shifts had exacerbated waste pickers’ structural disadvantages, and... Read More
Informal Workers in Senegal: A Statistical Profile In Senegal, 84 per cent of employment is informal. This brief examines six groups of informal workers who comprised over three-quarters of... Read More
La crise de la COVID-19 et l’économie informelle : récupératrice·eur·s de déchets en emploi informel à Dakar “La crise de la COVID-19 et l’économie informelle, une étude longitudinale menée dans 12 villes, sous la conduite de WIEGO, se propose... Read More
Réduction des déchets dans les villes côtières grâce au recyclage inclusif (ReWCC): Étude de base sur les récupératrice.eur.s de la décharge de Mbeubeuss Le présent rapport s’articule autour du système formel de gestion des déchets, et le diagnostic du système par les acteurs s’appuie sur l’analyse... Read More
The Informal Sector, Productivity, and Enforcement in West Africa: A Firm-level AnalysisReview of Development Economics This article is included in a special issue of the journal which includes 11 articles focused on informality. Read More
Informal Sector and Informal Employment: Overview of Data for 11 Cities in 10 Developing Countries This paper presents tabulations on informal employment in urban areas of 10 developing countries: Abidjan, Antananarivo, Bamako, Cotonou,... Read More
Sustainable Urban Livelihoods and Marketplace Social Capital: Crisis and Strategy in Petty Trade Abstract: Read More
