All posts in Africa
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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
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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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