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Informality in Africa: A Review

This paper examines the realities of informal employment in sub-Saharan Africa, where a significant proportion of employment activity and...

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...

Informality in South Asia: A Review

This paper seeks to explore the diversity of the informal economy across five countries in South Asia: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan,...

Legal reforms for the self-employed: three urban cases

Four out of five urban workers in modern India are engaged in the informal economy, and half of these are self-employed. This article examines...

The Global Crisis, Unemployment and HIV/ AIDS: What Role for Public Works Programmes?

Street Trade in Africa: A Review

Despite the advances in modern retailing, millions of people throughout the world still make their living partly or wholly through selling...

ASR Forum: Engaging with African Informal Economies: Social Inclusion of Adverse Incorporation? INCORPORATION? (Introduction)African Studies Review

Working Women and Security: Self Employed Women’s Association’s Response to Crisis

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Social Protection, Citizenship and the Employment Relationship

This paper addresses the issues of social protection, citizenship and the employment relationship, through the lens of South Africa. It argues...

Stockbrokers turned sandwich vendors: the economic crisis and small-scale food retailing in Southeast Asia

This paper examines narratives of the transformations in the small-scale food-retailing sector in urban Southeast Asia. The recent Asian...