Africa

Extending Occupational Health and Safety to Urban Street Vendors: Reflections From a Project in Durban, South Africa

Abstract: This article focuses on an action-research project which is attempting to extend occupational health and safety to a group of street...

Actor networks and innovation activities among rural enterprises in a South African locality

Abstract: Rural localities are often viewed as too remote, sparsely populated and poor in critical resources needed for them to be innovation...

Organising Informal Transport Workers: The Informal Economy and the Unionisation of Motorcycle Taxi Drivers in Benin

Community Unionism in Africa: The Case of Mozambique

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Traders on the Run: Activities of Street Vendors in the Accra Metropolitan Area, GhanaNorwegian Journal of Geography

Occupational Injuries in Ghana

Employment, unemployment and informality in Zimbabwe: Concepts and data for coherent policy-making

Abstract: Despite a sharp fall in formal sector employment since the late 1990s, Zimbabwe’s unemployment rate has remained below 10 per cent....

Rural and Microfinance Regulation in Ghana: Implications for Development of the Industry

Social Capital or Analytical Liability: Social Networks and African Informal EconomiesGlobal Networks

Abstract The rise of the ‘social capitalist’ paradigm has turned social networks into a concept that conceals more than it reveals. In this...

City Report – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Street Vendors in Accra, Ghana