Entries tagged ‘Informal Economy’
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Teaching India’s Informal Workers to Fight Their Legal Battles
By training vendors to be paralegals and teaching them how to negotiate in court, the Self-Employed Women’s Association of India is turning informal workers into their own best legal advocates.
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Kenyan TV Show Skewers Politicians With Puppets to International Acclaim
Created by residents of Kibera, The XYZ Show has become an unlikely smash, using puppetry to delight an audience thirsty for someone to finally put politicians in their place.
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A Covert Operation to Keep Lima’s Construction Workers Well-Fed
She isn’t a contractor, an architect or a carpenter, yet Maritsa has found a way to cash in on her city’s frenetic construction boom: By feeding its workers, one meal at a time.
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The Big Question: How Can We Reconcile Street Vending With Pedestrian-Friendly Sidewalks?
They’re a critical pillar of the informal economy, but as street vendors multiply, the amount of sidewalk space available for pedestrians is shrinking. Three perspectives on how to equitably share the pavement.
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Nairobi’s Rent Collectors Find Themselves Stuck Between Two Warring Sides
For “rent agents” like Musa Karanja, collecting money from informal settlers who don’t know whether they’ll soon be evicted is a process of knocking, begging and praying.
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The Delivery Business Booms as Chennai Decides to Stay In
Congestion has made driving to a restaurant in this city a masochistic exercise, but for one group — informal delivery boys — the gridlock is just gravy.
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The Virtues of Corruption
In a guest blog post, the author of the forthcoming book If Mayors Ruled the World argues that urban corruption, while corrosive in the long term, can benefit those struggling in a system stacked against them.
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Cigarette Vendors Fear New Sin Tax Could Be a Drag on Business
With the highest smoking rates in Southeast Asia, the Filipino government hopes its new sin tax will encourage citizens to quit the habit. Cigarette vendors, not so much.
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Tech-Savvy Entrepreneurs Bring the Street Trade Online
A growing number of e-commerce startups seem to think that the future of street hawking will have little to do with the street — or the physical city at all.
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To Raise Vendors’ Incomes, Focus on Reducing the Negatives
Instead of investing what little time and money they have in expanding their businesses, many vendors spend it trouble-shooting a system that won’t make space for them.
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