The Americas
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Organizing Briefs
Street Vendors Organising: The Case of the Women’s Network (Red de Mujeres), Lima, Peru
Street vendors have occupied public space in central Lima since the colonial period, and the first recorded attempt to regulate street trade...
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Research Reports
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
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Journal Articles
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.
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Research Reports
Informal Economy Monitoring Study Sector Report: Street Vendors
This report synthesizes qualitative and quantitative data from the first (2012) round of IEMS fieldwork in the street vendor sector in five...
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Research Reports
Sumário Executivo: Relatório do Setor Estudo de Monitoramento de Economia Informal: Catadores
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Journal Articles
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...
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Resource Documents
Promoting Decent Work for Domestic Workers: Lessons From Five Countries
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Sociological Inquiry
Abstract: Most research on the informal economy concentrates on how the informal economy operates at the international and regional levels...
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Research Reports
Construindo a cidadania: avanços e limites do Projeto de Coleta Seletiva em parceria com a ASMARE
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