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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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Research Reports
Organising Workers in the Informal Economy: The Experience of the Self Employed Women’s Union, 1994-2004
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Journal Articles
The Exclusion of Street Traders from the Benefits of the FIFA 2010 World Cup in South Africa
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Books & Book Chapters
Trade unions and the challenge of the informalisation of work
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Books & Book Chapters
Chapter 3 – Different Sectors, Different Challenges
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Books & Book Chapters
Children, Citizenship and Child Support: The Child Support Grant in South Africa
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Journal Articles
Revisiting Agency Work in Namibia and South Africa: Any Lessons from the Decent Work Agenda and the Flexicurity Approach?International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations
Abstract: Namibia has recently introduced policies regarding the regulation of agency work, and South Africa is in the process of doing the...
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Research Reports
City Report: Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Waste Pickers in Durban, South Africa
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