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

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  • Research Reports

    Executive Summary – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Street Vendors in Nakuru, Kenya

    The Informal Economy Monitoring Study (IEMS) is designed to provide in-depth understanding of how informal workers are affected by and respond...

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  • Research Reports

    Economic Recovery Assessment: Sierra Leone

    Evidence from a recent assessment by Mercy Corps of economic recovery assessment in Sierra Leone showed that youth and petty traders were...

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  • Research Reports

    Youth Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa

    This report is part of the The Africa Development Forum Series. “The Africa Development Forum Series was created in 2009 to focus on...

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  • Journal Articles

    Community-level adaptation to minimize vulnerability and exploit opportunities in Kampala’s wetlandsEnvironment and Urbanization

    This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO. 

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  • Research Reports

    Voice Regulation in the Informal Economy and New Forms of Work

    Abstract:This paper draws comparisons between the situation of Black workers in Apartheid South Africa and workers in the contemporary South...

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  • Research Reports

    Characteristics of informal economy workers and their households: Concepts and measurement using household surveys

    (Master’s thesis) University of Natal, Durban, South Africa

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  • Journal Articles

    Poor health kills small businesses: Illness and microenterprise in South Africa

    Abstract:

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Definitions, Data and the Informal Economy in South Africa: A Critical Analysis

    Chapter can be accessed through Google Scholar or download the book, The Development Decade? in its entirety.

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  • Journal Articles

    Estimating the Causal Effect of Enforcement on Minimum Wage Compliance: The Case of South AfricaReview of Development Economics

    This article is included in a special issue of the journal which includes 11 articles focused on informality. 

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  • Research Reports

    Nothing about us without us: A case study of the dynamics of the informal workplace in Mitchell’s Plain Town Centre

    This research paper is part of the Development and Labour Monograph Series.

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