Region: The Americas

Informal Sector and Social Policy: Compendium of Personal and Technical Reflections. Cornell-SEWA-WIEGO Exposure and Dialogue Program

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...

Street Trade in Latin America: Demographic Trends, Legal Issues and Vending Organizations in Six Cities

Informal Sector and Informal Employment: Overview of Data for 11 Cities in 10 Developing Countries

This paper presents tabulations on informal employment in urban areas of 10 developing countries: Abidjan, Antananarivo, Bamako, Cotonou,...

Epidemiological Surveillance of Informal Worker’s Health in Two Cities in Southeastern Brazil

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

The Urban Informal Workforce: Waste Pickers/Recyclers

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

Informal employment and health status in Central AmericaBMC Public Health

Background: Informal employment is assumed to be an important but seldom studied social determinant of health, affecting a large number of...

Informality and Inclusive Green Growth

Note on applications of definition and methods in Mexico

Note prepared for the WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference.