Region: The Americas

Organising home-based workers in the global economy: an action-research approachDevelopment in Practice

Abstract: This article describes an action-research project which has the multiple objectives of mapping the range of home-based work in...

Sumário Executivo: Vendedoras e Vendedores de Rua da Região Metropolitana de Lima

Sumário Executivo: Relatório do Setor Estudo de Monitoramento de Economia Informal: Catadores

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...

‘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...

Informality in Latin America: Facts and Opportunities

This paper was written as a contribution to a WIEGO/OECD project under the OECD Regional Reviews on Informality.

Catadores nas políticas públicas

Especial – Vida nas ruas População em situação de rua e o direito à Cidade

Organising Street Vendors: “Gente de Confiar” Radio Progamme, Lima, Peru

An authentically democratic community requires open channels of communication between citizens. Street markets offer a natural setting for...

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

Is Informal Sector Work an Alternative to Workfare Benefits? The Case of Pre-program Expansion and Economic CrisisReview of Development Economics

This article is included in a special issue of the journal which includes 11 articles focused on informality.