The Americas

The Informal Economy: Latino Enterprises at the Margins

FIELD (The Microenterprise Fund for Innovation, Effectiveness, Learning and Dissemination) is a program of the Aspen Institute.

Informal Economic Strategies: Advocacy For Street Vendors In Brazil

This paper is an introduction to informal labor; the politico-territorial characteristics of street vendor commerce in the city of Sao Paolo;...

Executive Summary – Informal Economy IEMS Monitoring Study: Waste Pickers in Belo Horizonte, Brazil

The Informal Economy Monitoring Study (IEMS) is a qualitative and quantitative study designed to evaluate the reality of these workers’ lives....

Modernist Planning and the Foundations of Urban Violence in Latin AmericaBuilt Environment

This article suggests that both the origins and responses to urban violence in Latin America have involved some sort of state ordering of...

The Efficiency of Informality: Quantifying Greenhouse Gas Reductions from Informal Recycling in Bogotá, Colombia

Abstract: The dual challenges of increasing urbanization and consumption are centered in cities in the Global South, where growing waste...

Solidarity Economy and the Struggle for Social Citizenship in Ties of Globalization: A Study of Cooperatives of Informal Garbage Pickers in Colombia

RéplicaNexos

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

Informalidad y Urbanismo Social en Medellín

La ciudad de Medellín, después de unas décadas de aislamiento e involución caracterizadas por altos índices de inseguridad, violencia y segregación...

Making labor law work for part-time and contingent workers

The Informal Economy: Experiences of African Americans

FIELD Program (Microenterprise Fund for Innovation, Effectiveness, Learning and Dissemination)