Entries tagged ‘Informal Economy’
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A Central Business District Trades its Corporations for Car Washers
As Nairobi’s big companies flee to the suburbs, street hawkers are flowing into the CBD. But can cheap jewelry and knock-off sunglasses sustain a downtown?
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Through Haute Couture and Handbags, a Manila Slum Gets a Makeover
Women in Tondo are creating clothes for the Philippines’ most famous designers, including a Project Runway judge, and showing how elevating your skills can uplift a neighborhood.
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“I Wish I Could Work on Those Dumpsites You See on TV”
Somjai Tuung-ngern, elderly and impoverished, works at the very bottom of Bangkok’s economy, with an informal job that is both her only chance of survival and a trap she can’t escape.
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Lacking Schools, an Army of Women Teach Kibera’s Youngest
Every weekday morning, they rise before dawn to educate their neighborhood’s children, without pay, in a school they built themselves.
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Do American Cities Have Informal Settlements?
As Lima works to integrate its poorer outlying neighborhoods, some U.S. cities are turning away from theirs.
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Why Chennai’s Vendors Prefer the Sidewalk to the Mall
For 115 years, vendors have plied their trades near the Lily Pond Shopping Complex. And for just as long, the city has been trying to convince them to go inside.
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The Middle-Class Vendors Shaking Up Bangkok’s Street Trade
Informality doesn’t always correlate with poverty and low education. Meet the business-school grads redefining what it means to operate a stall on the streets of Bangkok.
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An Unexpected Economic Boom Brings Questions About Who Benefits
Since Ghana started pumping oil in 2010, Accra has been blessed with one of the world’s fastest growing economies. But informal sector workers still piece their livelihoods together bit by bit.
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