Region: Africa

Hidden health costs of pesticide use in Zimbabwe’s smallholder cotton growers

Engendering Social Protection

Conference Summary Report from an International Conference on Social Protection and Gender, held with social protection officials and civil...

A Report on Street Vending in Ghana

Overview of regulatory issues concerning street vendors in Ghana

Disempowerment from Below: Informal Enterprise Networks and the Limits of Political Voice in NigeriaOxford Development Studies

Abstract: Decentralized governance has enjoyed limited success in promoting popular livelihoods and political voice among informal actors....

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...

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...

Organizing Informal Women Workers

Paper prepared for UNRISD Gender Policy Report.Abstract:

Dumping on Women: Gender and privatisation of waste management

Statistics on Informal Employment in South Africa

This brief summarizes statistics on employment – and, in particular, on urban informal employment – in South Africa.

Definitions, Data and the Informal Economy in South Africa: A Critical Analysis

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