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

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  • Research Reports

    Informal Sector and Employment Generation in Nigeria: An Error Correction Model

    Abstract: This paper examines the impact of informal sector on employment generation in Nigeria during the period 1970 to 2010 making use...

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  • Working Papers

    Perceptions of Costs and Benefits of Informal-Formal Linkages: Market and Street Vendors in Accra, Ghana

    This paper investigates ways in which linkages between the informal and formal segments of an economy yield benefits to, or impose costs...

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  • Journal Articles

    Beyond urban vulnerability: interrogating the social sustainability of a livelihood in the informal economy of Nigerian cities.

    Aba is a politically volatile, economically vibrant but environmentally poor city that is a microcosm of social conditions in the Nigerian...

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  • Research Reports

    Deciphering African Informal Economies

    Note prepared for the WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference.

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Informal Employment: Rethinking Workforce Development

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  • Research Reports

    Women Street Traders in Urban South Africa: A Synthesis of Selected Research Findings

    Centre for Social and Development Studies (CSDS) Research Report, No. 15

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  • Research Reports

    Trading on a grant: Integrating formal and informal social protection in post-apartheid migrant networks

    Brooks World Poverty Institute Working Paper, No. 75

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  • Organizing Briefs

    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.

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  • Research Reports

    Understanding Formal and Informal Economy Labour Market Dynamics: A Conceptual and Statistical Review with Reference to South Africa

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  • Journal Articles

    Myths of Globalisation: Private Regulation and Farm Worker Livelihoods on Western Cape FarmsTransformation

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