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

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  • Research Reports

    Informal Sector and Employment Generation in Nigeria: An Error Correction Model

    Abstract: This paper examines the impact of informal sector on employment generation in Nigeria during the period 1970 to 2010 making use...

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  • Working Papers

    Perceptions of Costs and Benefits of Informal-Formal Linkages: Market and Street Vendors in Accra, Ghana

    This paper investigates ways in which linkages between the informal and formal segments of an economy yield benefits to, or impose costs...

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  • Journal Articles

    Beyond urban vulnerability: interrogating the social sustainability of a livelihood in the informal economy of Nigerian cities.

    Aba is a politically volatile, economically vibrant but environmentally poor city that is a microcosm of social conditions in the Nigerian...

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  • Research Reports

    Deciphering African Informal Economies

    Note prepared for the WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference.

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  • Research Reports

    Street Vending in African Cities: A Synthesis of Empirical Findings from Kenya, Cote D’Ivoire, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Uganda and South Africa

    Background Paper for the World Bank’s 2005 World Development Report

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  • Research Reports

    Promoting the Interests of Women in the Informal Economy: An Analysis of Street Trader Organizations in South Africa

    Centre for Social and Development Studies (CSDS) Research Report, No. 19

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  • Research Reports

    Understanding self-employment at the margins of the South African economy: Findings from a pilot study on qualitative approaches to self-employment

    Report for the National Income Dynamics Study Steering Committee, Draft

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  • Organizing Briefs

    Options for Organizing Waste Pickers in South Africa

     This brief is part of the WIEGO Publication Series. View list of all WIEGO briefs.

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  • City/Country Level Reports

    Foreign Street Traders in Inner City Durban: Survey Results and Policy Dilemmas

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Innovative Practices for the Urban Informal Economy

    An expert group meeting was convened to discuss case studies of regulatory inform of the urban informal sector in six developing country...

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