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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

    Informal Institutions and Personal Rule in Urban GhanaAfrican Studies Review

    Abstract: Contrary to expectations of modern democratic development, the establishment of liberal-democratic institutions in Ghana has not...

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  • Journal Articles

    Efficient lighting uptake among the urban poor: evidence from a Kenyan informal settlementEnvironment and Urbanization

    This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO. 

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Chains of Production, Ladders of Protection: Social Protection for Workers in the Informal Economy

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  • Research Reports

    Organizing in South Africa’s Informal Economy: An Overview of Four Sectoral Case Studies

    In Focus Programme, Series on Representation and Organization Building. Working Paper, No. 60

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  • Research Reports

    Towards a Right to Work: The Rationale for an Employment Guarantee in South Africa

    Paper presented at the PLAAS Studies in Poverty and Inequality and Isandla Institute Conference on Inequality and Poverty in South Africa,...

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  • Technical Briefs

    Major International Events and the Working Poor: Selected Lessons for Social Actors Stemming from the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa

    This technical brief explores issues that arose before, during and after the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, with the aim of informing...

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  • Journal Articles

    Methodological innovations in research on the dynamics of poverty: a longitudinal study in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

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  • Research Reports

    The Urban Informal Workforce: Waste Pickers/Recyclers

    These findings are based on research conducted in 2012 as part of the Informal Economy Monitoring Study (IEMS), a project under Inclusive...

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  • Journal Articles

    Informal business and poverty in South Africa: Rethinking the paradigmLaw, Democracy and Development

    Analysing policy discourse concerning the informal economy in South Africa, the article explicates in detail the paucity of (even ostensibly...

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  • Journal Articles

    ‘The State in a Changing World’; plus ça change?: Reflections from the south on the World Bank’s 1997 World Development ReportJournal of International Development

    Abstract: Drawing on South African experiences, this paper provides a critical evaluation of the World Bank’s 1997 World Development...

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