Recycling Livelihoods: A Global Network Supports Waste-Pickers in Latin America
Standing for long hours in line to receive your first paycheck may sound pretty stressful. However, for recyclers in Bogotá, their first...
Read MoreRegion: The Americas
All posts in The Americas
-
Journal Articles
-
Technology, informal workers and cities: insights from Ahmedabad (India), Durban (South Africa) and Lima (Peru)
This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO.
Read More -
Journal Articles
License To Sell: The Effect Of Business Registration Reform On Entrepreneurial Activity In Mexico
This paper estimates the economic effects of a recent reform that simplified business entry regulation in Mexico. The reform was introduced...
Read More -
Waste Picker Cooperatives in Developing Countries
Paper prepared for WIEGO/Cornell/SEWA Conference on Membership-Based Organizations of the Poor, Ahmedabad, India, January 2005
Read More -
Research Reports
Extending Social Protection to Informal Workers in the Horticulture Global Value Chain
Social Protection Discussion Paper Series, No. 0216
Read More -
Overview of the Legal Framework for Inclusion of Informal Recyclers in Solid Waste Management in Brazil
Brazil has replaced repressive policies on waste picking with new inclusive policies that give legal backing to redistributive measures and...
Read More -
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
Read More -
Contribution of cooperative sector recycling to greenhouse gas emissions reduction: A case study of Ribeirão Pires, BrazilWaste Management
Abstract: Solid waste, including municipal waste and its management, is a major challenge for most cities and among the key contributors...
Read More -
Street Vendors and the Right to the City
Ambulantes e Direito à Cidade também está disponível em Português.
Read More -
Journal Articles
Labor Market Rigidities and Informality in ColombiaEconomía
Informality has been at the center of the economic debate in Colombia as a result of the high levels prevalent in the country and its substantial...
Read More
