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

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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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