Urban Policies Programme

Know Your Rights: Street Vendors in India Poster (English)

Design Guidelines for Social Distancing & Street Vendors Poster (Hindi)

Design Guidelines Poster (English)

Street vending in times of COVID-19 (Hindi)

Street vending in times of COVID-19 (English)

No Place for Street Vendors: Global Capital and Local Exclusion in an East Asian Immigrant Enclave of New York City

The survey on which this Resource Document is based shows that, for many people in the New York City neighbourhood of Flushing, a good neighbourhood...

Informal Workers in Mexico: A Statistical Snapshot

This Brief provides statistics on the informal economy and categories of informal workers in Mexico. The data in this brief are based on...

Press Release: Ghana waste pickers say closure threatens survival and demand government support

A decision to close landfills imminently is threatening the livelihoods of hundreds of waste pickers in both Accra and Kumasi, Ghana. Those...

Informal workers can help stop COVID-19 infection spread in Peru and throughout Latin America

  Despite the troubling and false narrative that has taken hold in Peru and is spreading across Latin America about the role of informal...

Tax Justice and the Informal Economy: A Review of the Debates

Mike Rogan reviews how informal workers are taxed, why there is growing interest in taxing them, and whether they should be included in the...