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Eking out a living: the livelihood implications of urban space regulation on street hawking in Accra, Ghana Abstract: Street hawking as a source of livelihood across the developing world has often raised a lot of concerns regarding hygiene, slum,... Read More
Major International Events and the Working Poor: Selected Lessons for Social Actors Stemming from the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa This technical brief explores issues that arose before, during and after the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, with the aim of informing... Read More
On the Road to Zero Waste This set of zero waste case studies profiles nine diverse communities, each providing a real-world example of authentic progress toward the... Read More
Street Vending in Ten Cities in India This report was written for NASVI (National Association of Street Vendors of India). Read More
The Regularization of Street Vending in Bhubaneshwar, India: A Policy Model After years of conflict between street traders and local authorities, the city of Bhubaneshwar, India developed a public, private and community... Read More
Waste and Development – Perspectives from the Ground While waste pickers provide vital services to their communities, their municipalities and the environment – they generally face very difficult... Read More
Waste Pickers Lead the Way to Zero Waste This is a case study, published by GAIA, about waste pickers in Pune, India. Read More
Whose Wealth Is It Anyway? Mozambique’s Outstanding Economic Growth with Worsening Rural Poverty Despite rapid economic growth and massive inflows of aid, rural poverty in Mozambique is worsening. Agricultural production and productivity have... Read More
Introduction: Informality—Concepts, Facts and Models From the article: “This article introduces a symposium on informality which pushes forward the research frontier by presenting new... Read More
Socio-economic status of workers of building construction industry Industrialization with the introduction of newly developed technologies plays an important role for development of a country. Building construction... Read More
