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Research Reports
City Report – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Waste Pickers in Nakuru, Kenya
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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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