Unleashing waste-pickers potential: supporting recycling cooperatives in Santiago de Chile
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Keywords
waste pickers; co-production; Santiago; recycling waste; management; informal economy;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- R14 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Land Use Patterns
- J01 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General - - - Labor Economics: General
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENV-2019-10-21 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-HME-2019-10-21 (Heterodox Microeconomics)
- NEP-IUE-2019-10-21 (Informal and Underground Economics)
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