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  • Research Reports

    Extending Social Protection to Informal Workers in the Horticulture Global Value Chain

    Social Protection Discussion Paper Series, No. 0216

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  • Working Papers

    Domestic Workers in Latin America: Statistics for New Policies

    This paper analyzes domestic work, where the labour relationship is ill-regulated and difficult to control, and the conditions and characteristics...

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  • Journal Articles

    Informal Jobs: Another Occupational Hazard for Women’s Mental Health?International Journal of Epidemiology

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  • Law & Informality Insights

    A Experiência de Advocacy no caso dos Trabalhadores Ambulantes em São Paulo

    Este sumário, disponível em português, faz uma reflexão sobre o processo jurídico que contestou e acabou por derrubar uma proibição da Câmara...

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  • Research Reports

    Relatórios das Cidades, Estudo de Monitoramento da Economia Informal – Catadoras e Catadores em Belo Horizonte, Brasil

    The Informal Economy Monitoring Study (IEMS) is designed to provide in-depth understanding of how informal workers are affected by and respond...

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  • Journal Articles

    Modernist Planning and the Foundations of Urban Violence in Latin AmericaBuilt Environment

    This article suggests that both the origins and responses to urban violence in Latin America have involved some sort of state ordering of...

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  • Research Reports

    Our Children Do Not Get the Attention They Deserve

    This report presents the results of a five-city research study examining informal women workers’ access to child care in Brazil, Ghana,...

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  • Research Reports

    Note on applications of definition and methods in Mexico

    Note prepared for the WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference.

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Innovative Practices for the Urban Informal Economy

    An expert group meeting was convened to discuss case studies of regulatory inform of the urban informal sector in six developing country...

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  • Journal Articles

    The Macrosociology of Paid Domestic Labor

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