Entries tagged ‘Informal Economy’
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A Theatrical Production Aimed at City Officials Spotlights the Slums
For a quarter century, advocates have staged performances on city streets to call attention to the plight of the urban poor. Recently, their production hit the big time.
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Where the New India Rises, a Highway Divides Eras and Economies
In Sriperumbudur, the NH4 highway divides a town: Thatched roofs and mud roads on one side, powerful corporations on the other, with workers moving, sometimes uneasily, between the two worlds.
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Debajo de una Superficie Pulcra, Emerge un Mercado Negro
Polvos Azules, uno de los centros comerciales más transitados de Lima, es casi indistinguible de un ‘mall’ convencional. Nunca adivinarías que casi todo ahí es ilegal.
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Breaking Rules and Flouting Bans at Thailand’s Annual Nationwide Water Fight
At this year’s Songkran festival, preposterous bans on vending and booze were defiantly ignored, and Bangkok’s riotous informal spirit was on full display.
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How Cities Can Get Rid of Slums By Supporting Them
Shacks become houses, slums become suburbs. In a guest blog post, William Cobbett, Manager of the Cities Alliance, argues that cities can eliminate slums is by getting behind the people who live in them.
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Hope and Skepticism as Ghana Finally Adopts an Urban Policy
The plan lays out a fairly progressive set of objectives that could improve life for informal settlers and workers. Whether it succeeds remains to be seen.
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Through Riots and Police Barricades, a Market for the Poor Staggers On
Lima’s plan to shut down La Parada market as part of its plan to modernize the city has only one problem: Come hell or high water, the people aren’t leaving.
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Illegal Brews in Slum-Based Bars Make Nairobians Tipsy, Blind or Dead
Playing a drinkable game of Russian roulette, Nairobi slum dwellers know that their informally produced drink might contain acid or gasoline. It’s a risk they’re willing to take.
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How America Fails Its Informal Settlers
Its not just insensitive governments in developing countries — American cities, too, have shameful policies designed to keep the urban poor from using public space.
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The 70 Percent in Ghana (Hint: It’s the Informal Sector)
In a country of growing wealth, only a small fraction of Ghanaians pay taxes. Would taxing informal workers help them or hurt them? Next City’s Editor in Chief searches for answers in Accra.
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