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  • Research Reports

    Waste Pickers in Brazil: promoting sustainable development through poverty eradication policies

    Concept note presented for 69th United Nations General Assembly’s Side Event organized by the Presidency of Brazil and CEMPRE.

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  • Budget Briefs

    Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Greater Monrovia

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  • Research Reports

    Belo Horizonte Selective Waste Collection Programme

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Confronting and Engaging Privatisation

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  • Journal Articles

    Gestão Pública Sustentável de Resíduos Sólidos – Uso de Bases de Dados Oficiais e de indicadores de sustentabilidade

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  • Working Papers

    Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Philippines and Quezon City

    This paper considers whether national and local government budgets in the Philippines make a difference to informal economy workers – particularly...

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  • Research Reports

    Engaging With the Urban Poor and Their Organizations for Poverty Reduction and Urban Governance

    An issues paper for the United Nations Development Programme

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  • Journal Articles

    Self-Employed Proletarians in an Informal Factory: The Case of Cali’s Garbage DumpWorld Development (Pergamon Press)

    Summary: This paper presents data on the organization of work among the scavengers on the garbage dump in the city of Cali, Colombia. Garbage...

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  • Journal Articles

    The Effects of Handling Solid Waste on the Wellbeing of Informal and Organized Recyclers: a review of the literature

    Estimated at 15 million people operating globally, informal recyclers perform a vital public service while working individually or within...

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  • Research Reports

    Situação Social das Catadoras e dos Catadores de Material Reciclável e Reutilizável (Região Sudeste)

    Coordenação – Sandro Pereira Silva, Fernanda Lira Goes, Albino Rodrigues Alvarez   Relatórios sobre outras regiões: Centro-OesteNordeste NorteSul ...

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