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  • Research Reports

    Trabalhadoras Informais se Mobilizando pelo Cuidado das Crianças

    Trabalhadoras Informais se Mobilizando pelo Cuidado das Crianças argumenta que benefícios à maternidade e os serviços de cuidado infantil...

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  • Journal Articles

    RéplicaNexos

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

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  • Journal Articles

    Informal Urbanism in the USA: New Challenges for Theory and PracticePlanning Theory and Practice

    Devlin describes the case of immigrant food vendors in an area of Brooklyn and how as they became more popular with better off New Yorkers...

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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 Peru and Metropolitan Lima

    This paper analyzes the national, regional and local budgeting allocations for programmes and services targeting (directly or indirectly)...

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  • Journal Articles

    Depressive and anxiety symptoms among housemaidsAmerican Journal of Industrial Medicine

    Background: Housemaid, the most common occupation in the female labor force in Brazil, is known to be targeted by a generalized racial and...

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Improving the Regulatory Framework for Income Enhancement of the Urban Poor: A Case Study of Lima

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  • Research Reports

    The Urban Informal Workforce: Street Vendors

    These findings are based on research conducted in 2012 as part of the Informal Economy Monitoring Study (IEMS), a project under Inclusive...

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  • Research Reports

    (In)dependent Contractor Misclassification

    Numerous state-level studies show that between 10 and 20 percent of employers misclassify at least one worker as an independent contractor. ...

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