
All posts in Africa
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Books & Book Chapters
Mean Streets: Migration, Xenophobia and Informality in South Africa
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Books & Book Chapters
Changing Social Policy: The Child Support Grant in South Africa
Description from HSRC Press: An important historical record of one part of post-apartheid South Africa’s policymaking, Changing Social...
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Journal Articles
Technology, informal workers and cities: insights from Ahmedabad (India), Durban (South Africa) and Lima (Peru)
This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO.
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Research Reports
Linking Safety Nets, Social Protection and Poverty Reduction: Directions for Africa
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Journal Articles
The tangled web of associational life: Urban governance and the politics of popular livelihoods in Nigeria
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Journal Articles
Trader associations and urban food systems in Ghana: Institutionalist approaches to understanding urban collective action
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Journal Articles
“You just look at our work and see if you have any freedom on earth”: Ghanaian women’s accounts of their work and their health
Abstract: Research on women’s health in the developing world has focussed on reproductive issues and has defined women primarily as...
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Research Reports
Assessing the Reintegration of Ex-Combatants in the Context of Instability and Informal Economies
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Research Reports
Santé et sécurité au travail pour les commerçants et les vendeurs de rue d’Accra et de Takoradi (Ghana)
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Journal Articles
Social Capital or Analytical Liability: Social Networks and African Informal EconomiesGlobal Networks
Abstract The rise of the ‘social capitalist’ paradigm has turned social networks into a concept that conceals more than it reveals. In this...
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