Africa

Securing Livelihoods: A Gendered Analysis of Support Interventions available to Street Traders in the Durban Metropolitan Area

The Urban Informal Workforce: Street Vendors

These findings are based on research conducted in 2012 as part of the Informal Economy Monitoring Study (IEMS), a project under Inclusive...

Mean Streets: Migration, Xenophobia and Informality in South Africa

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.

Linking Safety Nets, Social Protection and Poverty Reduction: Directions for Africa

The tangled web of associational life: Urban governance and the politics of popular livelihoods in Nigeria

Trader associations and urban food systems in Ghana: Institutionalist approaches to understanding urban collective action

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“You just look at our work and see if you have any freedom on earth”: Ghanaian women’s accounts of their work and their health

Abstract: Research on women’s health in the developing world has focussed on reproductive issues and has defined women primarily as...

Assessing the Reintegration of Ex-Combatants in the Context of Instability and Informal Economies