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

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  • Journal Articles

    Waste management policy: implications for landfill waste salvagers in the Western CapeInternational Journal of Environment and Waste Management

    Abstract: The City of Cape Town Solid Waste Management Department’s (CCTSWMD) design of a more formal, integrated and sustainable waste...

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  • Research Reports

    Poverty Trends in South Africa

    From the report’s preface: “This report presents poverty and inequality trends based on data collected by Stats SA through the...

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  • Research Reports

    Nossos filhosnão recebem a atenção que merecem

    Esta publicação relata os resultados de uma pesquisa em cinco cidades, que examinava o acesso das trabalhadoras informais ao cuidado de crianças...

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  • Resource Documents

    Promoting Decent Work for Domestic Workers: Lessons From Five Countries

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  • Journal Articles

    Informal Economies and Urban Governance in Nigeria: Popular Empowerment or Political Exclusion?African Studies Review

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  • Journal Articles

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

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  • Journal Articles

    The Informal Sector in Ghana Under Siege

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  • Journal Articles

    Contaminated Identities: Mercury and marginalisation in Ghana’s artisanal mining sectorGeoforum

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  • Research Reports

    Occupational Health & Safety for Market and Street Traders in Accra and Takoradi, Ghana

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  • Research Reports

    The Informal Sector in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Working Paper on the Informal Economy, No. 10

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