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  • Research Reports

    Criminalising the Livelihoods of the Poor: The impact of formalising informal trading on female and migrant traders in Durban

    According to the author’s of this report, the policy of the eThekwini Municipality in South Africa on informal economy, encompassing informal...

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Global Recession and the Informal Economy: Evidence from Latin America and Beyond

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  • Research Reports

    Facing the Facts: Acknowledging the informal economy in anti-poverty policies and services

    Most people who work informally are forced to do so to make ends meet rather than out of a desire to cheat the system. Yet by working in...

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  • Research Reports

    National Policy on Urban Street Vendors

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  • Journal Articles

    Special Issue on Labor Law Reforms in India

    The issue features an article on law and the self-employed in India (see pp 133-150, Legal Reforms for the Self-Employed: Three Urban Cases),...

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  • Journal Articles

    The Informal Economy: Recent Trends, Future Directions

    Abstract: Informal employment represents more than half of nonagricultural employment in most developing regions, contributes to the overall...

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Progress of the World’s Women 2005: Women, Work and Poverty

    Available in English here Disponible en español aquí Disponible en français ici 

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  • Journal Articles

    Social Security and the Changing Labour Market: Access for Non-standard and Informal Workers in South Africa

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Rethinking the Informal Economy: Linkages with the Formal Economy and the Formal Regulatory Environment

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Flexibility of Labour in Globalizing India

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