Region: Africa

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.

Identity Economics: Social Networks and the Informal Economy in Nigeria

The contested spatialities of transnational activism: gendered gatekeeping and gender struggles in an African association of informal workers

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Statistics on Informal Employment in Ghana

This brief summarizes statistics on employment – and, in particular, on urban informal employment – in Ghana.The statistics are based on...

African Women in Food Processing: A Major, But Still Underestimated Sector of Their Contribution to the National Economy

Paper prepared for the International Development Research Centre (IDRC)

Changes in Official Attitudes Towards Urban Agriculture in AccraAfrican Studies Quarterly

Sumário Executivo – Estudo de Monitoramento da Economia Informal: Catadores de Nakuru, Quênia

ASR Forum: Engaging with African Informal Economies: Social Inclusion of Adverse Incorporation? INCORPORATION? (Introduction)African Studies Review

Community-level adaptation to minimize vulnerability and exploit opportunities in Kampala’s wetlandsEnvironment and Urbanization

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

Deciphering African Informal Economies

Note prepared for the WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference.