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  • Research Reports

    A summary of research findings on women informal workers and child care from six membership-based organizations

    This publication is a summary of “Our children do not get the attention they deserve”: A synthesis of research finding on women informal...

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  • Organizing Briefs

    The Mobilization of Bolivian Domestic Workers

    This brief describes the mobilization of domestic workers in Bolivia focusing particularly on the campaign that led to the approval of the...

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  • Project Reports

    IDRC Final Report: Legal Empowerment of the Working Poor

    Summary of three-country study of law and the working poor, funded by IDRC (November 2011-March 2013)

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  • Research Reports

    Measuring Nonstandard Employment in the United States

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

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  • Research Reports

    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.

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  • Journal Articles

    Catadores nas políticas públicas

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

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  • WIEGO Publication Series

    Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Brazil and Belo Horizonte

    This paper provides an analysis of government budgets related to specific groups of informal workers in Belo Horizonte, the capital of the...

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  • Journal Articles

    Informal jobs and non-fatal occupational injuriesAnnals of Occupational Hygiene

    Objectives: In Brazil, workers without a formal job contract represent approximately half of the labor force but there are no official statistics...

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  • City/Country Level Reports

    Trajetόrias e Memόrias dos Fόruns Lixo e Cidadania No Brasil: Experimentos Singulares de Justiça Social e Governança Participativa

    Summary available in English here.

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  • Research Reports

    Sumário Executivo – Estudo de Monitoramento da Economia Informal: Catadoras e Catadores em Belo Horizonte, Brasil

     

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