Africa

People Working Informally: Negotiating the Use of Public Spaces in Durban City

Paper for panel entitled “Urban Responses to Street Traders: A Comparative Perspective from India, Kenya, and South...

Challenging city imaginaries: Street traders’ struggles in Warwick Junction

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Organizing on the Streets: A Study of Reclaimers in the Streets of Cape Town

 This brief is part of the WIEGO Publication Series. View list of all WIEGO briefs.

Foreign Street Traders in Inner City Durban: Survey Results and Policy Dilemmas

Innovative Practices for the Urban Informal Economy

An expert group meeting was convened to discuss case studies of regulatory inform of the urban informal sector in six developing country...

“I carry people and goods across the border for a living”

Informal cross-border couriers (bomalayisha) have transported people and goods between Zimbabwe and South Africa for several decades.

Changing Social Policy: The Child Support Grant in South Africa

Description from HSRC Press: An important historical record of one part of post-apartheid South Africa’s policymaking, Changing Social...

Technology, informal workers and cities: insights from Ahmedabad (India), Durban (South Africa) and Lima (Peru)

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

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

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“Glocal” Movements: Place Struggles and Transnational Organizing by Informal Workers

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