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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

    Long-term injury related disability in Ghana

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  • City/Country Level Reports

    Saúde & Segurança Ocupacional para Comerciantes e Vendedores Ambulantes em Acra e Takoradi, Gana

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  • Journal Articles

    Toward a Decent Work Regime for Informal Employment in Ghana: Some Preliminary Considerations

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  • Working Papers

    The Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme: Barriers to Access for Informal Workers

    Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) is an innovative attempt to extend social protection to informal workers, and, as such, it...

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  • Journal Articles

    Home-Based Enterprises in Urban Space: Obligation for Strategic Planning?Berkeley Planning Journal

    One major manifestation of rapid urbanization and underdevelopment is the re-emergence of informal sector activities. This trend includes...

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  • Journal Articles

    The confounding influence of urban informality on innovation and production specialisation in production clusters: evidence from Nairobi

    Abstract: This paper investigates two agglomeration economies, innovation and production specialisation, within Nairobi’s handicraft...

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  • Research Reports

    Informalising the Formal: Clothing Manufacturing in Durban, South Africa

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  • Research Reports

    Organizing in South Africa’s Informal Economy: An Overview of Four Sectoral Case Studies

    In Focus Programme, Series on Representation and Organization Building. Working Paper, No. 60

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  • Research Reports

    Organizing in the Informal Economy: A Case Study of Street Trading in South Africa

    IFP/SEED Working Paper No. 36. Geneva, ILO, 2002.

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Chapter 2 – Turning Warwick Around

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