Region: Africa

Toward a Decent Work Regime for Informal Employment in Ghana: Some Preliminary Considerations

The Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme: Barriers to Access for Informal Workers

Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) is an innovative attempt to extend social protection to informal workers, and, as such, it...

Home-Based Enterprises in Urban Space: Obligation for Strategic Planning?Berkeley Planning Journal

One major manifestation of rapid urbanization and underdevelopment is the re-emergence of informal sector activities. This trend includes...

The confounding influence of urban informality on innovation and production specialisation in production clusters: evidence from Nairobi

Abstract: This paper investigates two agglomeration economies, innovation and production specialisation, within Nairobi’s handicraft...

Voice Regulation in the Informal Economy and New Forms of Work

Abstract:This paper draws comparisons between the situation of Black workers in Apartheid South Africa and workers in the contemporary South...

A Census of Street Vendors in eThekwini Municipality

Poor health kills small businesses: Illness and microenterprise in South Africa

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Human Resource Development in the Informal Economy

Estimating the Causal Effect of Enforcement on Minimum Wage Compliance: The Case of South AfricaReview of Development Economics

This article is included in a special issue of the journal which includes 11 articles focused on informality. 

Nothing about us without us: A case study of the dynamics of the informal workplace in Mitchell’s Plain Town Centre

This research paper is part of the Development and Labour Monograph Series.