Legal Empowerment

“I carry people and goods across the border for a living”

Informal cross-border couriers (bomalayisha) have transported people and goods between Zimbabwe and South Africa for several decades.

واﻻﺟﺘﻤﺎﻋﻴﺔ ﻓﻲ اﻟﺒﻠﺪان اﻟﻌﺮﺑﻴﺔراﺻﺪ اﻟﺤﻘﻮق اﻻﻗﺘﺼﺎدﻳﺔ

أطلقت شبكة المنظمات العربية غير الحكومية للتنمية الإصدار الثالث لراصد الحقوق الاقتصادية والاجتماعيّة في البلدان العربيّة الذي ركّز هذه المرّة...

A Report on Kayayei in Ghana

Localizing Global Rules: Public Participation in Lawmaking in Vietnam

As the pace of legal harmonization in developing East Asian states increases to comply with international trading treaties, a disjunction...

Social regionalism in the Southern Africa Development Community: The international, regional and national interplay of labour alternative dispute resolution mechanisms

Abstract: The Southern African Development Community region (SADC) has seen a trend toward applying Alternative Dispute Settlement (ADR)...

Using Administrative Law to Secure Informal Livelihoods: Lessons from South Africa

Although informal workers make up the broad base of the work force in many countries, legal frameworks often fail to protect and support...

A Report on Street Vending in Ghana

Overview of regulatory issues concerning street vendors in Ghana

Varieties of Legal Dualism: Making Sense of the Role of Law in Contemporary Russia

Explores dual (formal/informal) systems of political use of the courts and informal social/business networks in Russia.

Informal business and poverty in South Africa: Rethinking the paradigmLaw, Democracy and Development

Analysing policy discourse concerning the informal economy in South Africa, the article explicates in detail the paucity of (even ostensibly...

Informal Employment, Labour Law and the Challenge of Enforcement

In order to regulate, improve and standarDize informal labor, there is a need for a strategic vision of labor regulation supported by theories,...