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

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  • Journal Articles

    Pensions and development: Social security as complementary to programmes of reconstruction and development

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  • Research Reports

    Childcare Initiative Summary Report – Hindi

    कामकाजी गरीब से संबंधित छह सदस्य-आधारित संगठनों (MBOs) से असंगठित महिला श्रमिकों और बच्चों की देखभाल पर शोध निष्कर्षों का सारांश

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  • Research Reports

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

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  • Journal Articles

    Employment vulnerability and earnings in urban West Africa

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Informal workers in Kenya and transnational organizing: Networking and leveraging resources

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  • Journal Articles
  • Books & Book Chapters

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

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  • Organizing Briefs

    Informal Workers and Collective Bargaining: Five Case Studies

    This brief summarizes the findings of a set of case studies of collective bargaining by informal workers in five different countries. Included...

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  • Worker Story

    Gaining Ground: The Cooperative Life of a Smallholder in Uganda

    With lives and livelihoods governed by so many forces beyond their control, women coffee producers like Jenipher Wettaka know it takes more...

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  • Journal Articles

    Occupational and Environmental Health Risks Associated with Informal Sector Activities—Selected Case Studies from West Africa

    Abstract: Most in the Economic Community of West African States region are employed in the informal sector. While the informal sector plays...

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