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  • Research Reports

    Fortaleciendo la voz de los trabajadores de la economía informal en las decisiones de política social en América Latina

    Este documento presenta estudios en dos áreas temáticas: políticas públicas de protección social, y experiencias y estrategias desde las...

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  • Research Reports

    Growth, Employment and Social Cohesion in the Dominican Republic

    Background paper for ILO-IMF Tripartite Consultation on Job-rich and Inclusive Growth in the Dominican Republic.

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  • Journal Articles

    Revanchist Urbanism Heads South: The Regulation of Indigenous Beggars and Street Vendors in Ecuador.Antipode

    Much of the discussion surrounding neoliberal urbanism has been empirically grounded in the North. This paper shifts the discussion south...

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  • Research Reports

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

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  • Research Reports

    Broken laws, unprotected workers: Violations of employment and labour laws in America’s cities

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  • Journal Articles

    Home-Based Work and Women’s Labor Force DecisionsJournal of Labor Economics

    Abstract: Home‐based work differs from other employment because the work site is the home itself. This difference means that the fixed costs...

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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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  • Journal Articles

    Informalidad, inseguridad y cohesión social en América Latina

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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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  • Project Reports

    Review of the Mixed Survey in the Colombian Informal Sector

    Prepared for ILO-Latin America/WIEGO Latin America Regional Workshop on Statistics on the Informal Economy, Santiago, Chile

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