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

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Welfare, Development and Growth: Lessons from South Africa

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  • Journal Articles

    Hierarchies of care work in South Africa: nurses, social workers and home-based care workers

    This article by Francie Lund, who led WIEGO’s Social Protection Programme from 2000-2016, is chapter 21 (page 465-79) of the volume. ...

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  • Research Reports

    Employment, Incomes and Equality: A Strategy for Increasing Productive Employment in Kenya

    A report of an inter- agency team financed by the United Nations Development Programme and organised by the International Labour Office to...

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Street trading in Africa: Demographic trends, planning and trader organisation

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  • Working Papers

    Informality in Africa: A Review

    This paper examines the realities of informal employment in sub-Saharan Africa, where a significant proportion of employment activity and...

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  • Journal Articles

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

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  • Journal Articles

    Health and Sanitation is an Economic Right as Well–Just Ask Ghanaian Food Sellers

    WIEGO Researcher Laura Alfers investigates the chop bar owners of Accra. Whereas governments are quick to scapegoat them for diseases borne...

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  • Research Reports

    Saúde & Segurança Ocupacional para os Fornecedores Nativos em Acra, Gana

    em português

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  • Research Reports

    The Informal Sector in Ghana

    Overview of the informal sector in Ghana, with a focus on domestic workers, street vendors, and head porters

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  • Research Reports

    Sumário Executivo – Estudo de Monitoramento da Economia Informal: Vendedoras e vendedores ambulantes em Nakuru, Quênia

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