The Americas

Fortaleciendo la voz de los trabajadores de la economía informal en las decisiones de política social en América Latina

Este documento presenta estudios en dos áreas temáticas: políticas públicas de protección social, y experiencias y estrategias desde las...

Growth, Employment and Social Cohesion in the Dominican Republic

Background paper for ILO-IMF Tripartite Consultation on Job-rich and Inclusive Growth in the Dominican Republic.

Revanchist Urbanism Heads South: The Regulation of Indigenous Beggars and Street Vendors in Ecuador.Antipode

Much of the discussion surrounding neoliberal urbanism has been empirically grounded in the North. This paper shifts the discussion south...

RéplicaNexos

Sin duda los problemas del crecimiento económico en México merecen estar en el centro de la discusión pública.

Measuring Non-Standard and Informal Employment in the United States Using Bureau of Labor Statistics Data

Paper for the WIEGO meeting on “Measuring Informal Employment in Developed Countries” 31 October-1 November 2008, Harvard University

Home-Based Workers in the United States: 2010

Construindo a cidadania: avanços e limites do Projeto de Coleta Seletiva em parceria com a ASMARE

Informalidad, inseguridad y cohesión social en América Latina

Street Vendors Organising: The Case of the Women’s Network (Red de Mujeres), Lima, Peru

Street vendors have occupied public space in central Lima since the colonial period, and the first recorded attempt to regulate street trade...

Review of the Mixed Survey in the Colombian Informal Sector

Prepared for ILO-Latin America/WIEGO Latin America Regional Workshop on Statistics on the Informal Economy, Santiago, Chile