Region: Africa

Contaminated Identities: Mercury and marginalisation in Ghana’s artisanal mining sectorGeoforum

Informal-Sector Entrepreneurship Development and Law in Sub-Saharan Africa

Summarizes needs for reform of business law governing the informal sector in sub-Saharan Africa.

City Report – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Street Vendors in Accra, Ghana

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)...

The e-waste conundrum: Balancing evidence from the North and on-the-ground developing countries’ realities for improved managementAfrican Review of Economics and Finance

Abstract from African Review of Economics and Finance: E-waste is currently the fastest-growing waste stream, posing major global management...

Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Greater Monrovia

Paid Care Providers in South Africa: Nurses, Domestic Workers, and Home-Based Care Workers

Organizing on the Streets: A Study of Reclaimers in the Streets of Cape Town – HINDI

 (Hindi) A summary based on the report by Koni Benson and Nandi Vanqa-Mgijima, International Labour Research and Information Group (ILRIG) ...

Measuring Informal Employment in South Africa: The New Quarterly Labour Force Survey

This briefing note discusses how the changes introduced in the Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) will affect

Collective action in the informal economy : the case of the self-employed women’s union