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  • Journal Articles

    ‘An area that governs itself ’: Informality, uncertainty and the management of street vending in New York CityPlanning Theory

    Laws governing street vending in New York City are confusing, convoluted, at times contradictory and difficult to enforce with any sort of...

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  • Research Reports

    Belo Horizonte Selective Waste Collection Programme

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  • Research Reports

    Reconceptualizing the urban “informal sector” in underdeveloped countries: An overview of the Brazilian, Indian and South African cases

    Paper written for GLU Conference, Mumbai, 22-24 February 2009

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  • Working Papers

    Gestão de Resíduos Sólidos, Catadores, Participação e Cidadania – Novas Articulações?

    This paper traces back the origins of the conceptual framework Integrated Sustainable Solid Waste Management, and examines how this concept...

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  • Policy Briefs

    Visão geral dos Instrumentos Legais para a Inclusão de Recicladores Informais na Gestão de Resíduos Sólidos no Brasil

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  • Journal Articles

    The Formalization of Informal/Precarious Labor in Contemporary ArgentinaInternational Sociology

    Abstract: In this article we argue that the Argentinian state is legalizing or formalizing informal/precarious labor. In the actual context...

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  • Research Reports

    Sumário Executivo – Estudo de Monitoramento da Economia Informal: Catadoras e Catadores de Materiais Recicláveis de Bogotá, Colômbia

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  • Research Reports

    Possible Choices, Valuable Meanings: an Overview of the Activities of Brazilian Recyclable Materials Pickers

    Recyclable materials pickers have been sorting through garbage and transforming it into usable commodities for a long time in many places...

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  • Research Reports

    The Formal and Informal Sectors in Colombia: Country Case Study on Labour Market Segmentation

    Employment Working Paper No.146

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  • Journal Articles

    Informal Cities and the Contestation of Public Space: The Case of Bogotá’s Street Vendors, 1988—2003Urban Studies

    The resurgence of informal street trading poses serious challenges for local officials responsible for the maintenance of public space. This...

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