Upon its publication in 1989, this was the first systematic and comprehensive analysis of the
Latin American School of Development and an invaluable guide to the major Third World …

LATIN AMERICAN CITY Page 1 THE LATIN AMERICAN CITY Alan Gilbert https://www.developmentbookshelf.com/doi/pdf/10.3362/9781909013841.000
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The “informal sector” is an exceedingly fuzzy concept which has come into wide use
because it seemed to address the interests of a number of very diverse groups: those …

Several approaches to the study of poverty are discussed, to learn from their strengths as
well as their weaknesses. For this purpose the concepts of marginality, social exclusion, new …

During the last decade a series of essays by prominent development theorists were
published in which it was argued that development theory was in crisis. In my view the First …

In the previous papers of this trilogy, I examined the recent literature on housing,
infrastructure and services in Third World cities and current writing on changing national …

En este ensayo se analizan los principales enfoques sobre la pobreza con sus diversas
orientaciones y propuestas o implicaciones para las políticas públicas. Se argumenta que la …

This essay reviews some of the theoretical, moral, and policy issues associated with the low-
income service occupations found in the streets, plazas, and other public places of most …

Mobile money provides a tool for survival, particularly in urban conditions shaped by city
regulations that make microvending difficult for the poor. An analysis of 165 interviews …

This paper responds to recent arguments that the informal sector is an extremely fuzzy
concept and that the formal/informal dichotomy does not serve as a useful description of …