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Peddling Trash: Waste Management and Income Generation
Daily quantities are sold for daily needs in Nairobi’s ever-growing slums. Called the kidogo economy, Swahili for ’little’, laundry detergent, margarine and anything else manufacturers haven’t packaged in small boxes are divided and resold in tiny affordable sachets. In this context of severe urban poverty, micro-enterprise isn’t a buzz word. It’s a lifestyle. So it’s appropriate that a solid waste management program ...
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The Base of the Latin American Pyramid
By Otaviano Canuto Thomas Trebat was right when he remarked here yesterday an enormous share of the Latin American wealth generated in recent years has piled up in the hands of a privileged few that may or may not be playing a useful role in turning the present boom into self-sustained econ...
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