All posts in Africa
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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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