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Mamuna Mohammed, a head load porter (kayayei), carries bananas through Agbogbloshie Market in Accra, Ghana

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  • Journal Articles

    The Informal Sector, Productivity, and Enforcement in West Africa: A Firm-level AnalysisReview of Development Economics

    This article is included in a special issue of the journal which includes 11 articles focused on informality. 

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  • Research Reports

    Sumário Executivo – Estudo de Monitoramento da Economia Informal: Vendedores Ambulantes em Acra, Gana

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  • WIEGO Publication Series

    Informal Economy Budget Analysis: Accra Metropolis

    WIEGO’s Informal Economy Budget Analysis (IEBA) examines how government budgets address the needs and interests of different groups of informal...

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  • Journal Articles

    The dilemma of managing the challenges of street vending in public spaces: The case of Enugu City, Nigeria

    Abstract: Urbanisation trend in sub-Saharan Africa in general and Nigeria in particular, is characterised by rapid urban population growth...

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  • Journal Articles

    Capitalism and the Common Man: Peasants and Petty Production in Africa and South AsiaAgrarian South: Journal of Political Economy

    Abstract: In 1976, the political sociologist of Africa, Gavin Williams, controversially ‘took the part of peasants’ in an essay, the critique...

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  • Resource Documents

    Perceptions of Costs and Benefits of Informal-Formal Linkages: Market and Street Vendors in Accra, Ghana

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  • Research Reports

    The Investment Climate for the Informal Economy: A Case of Durban, South Africa

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Dumping on Women: Gender and privatisation of waste management

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  • Research Reports

    Organizing in the Informal Economy: A Case Study of Street Trading in South Africa

    IFP/SEED Working Paper No. 36. Geneva, ILO, 2002.

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Chapter 2 – Turning Warwick Around

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