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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

    Falling through the Regulatory Cracks: Street Selling of Pesticides and Poisoning among Urban Youth in South AfricaInternational Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health

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  • Research Reports

    Second Best? Trends and Linkages in the Informal Economy in South Africa

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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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  • City/Country Level 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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  • Journal Articles

    Accumulation by dispossession and the informal economy – Struggles over knowledge, being and waste at a Soweto garbage dumpEnvironment and Planning D: Society and Space

    Melanie Samson, former coordinator of WIEGO’s work with waste pickers in Africa,  recently published an article entitled “Accumulation...

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  • Research Reports

    WIEGO Childcare Initiative Summary Report (Zulu)

    This summary, in Zulu, details research findings on women informal workers and child care from six membership-based organizations.

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Identity Economics: Social Networks and the Informal Economy in Nigeria

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  • Journal Articles

    The contested spatialities of transnational activism: gendered gatekeeping and gender struggles in an African association of informal workers

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  • Journal Articles

    A Re-Examination of the Urban Informal Sector in West Africa

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  • Organizing Briefs

    Mapping of the Policy Context and Catadores Organizations in Maputo, Mozambique

     This brief is part of the WIEGO Publication Series. View list of all WIEGO briefs.

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