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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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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
Paid Care Providers in South Africa: Nurses, Domestic Workers, and Home-Based Care Workers
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Books & Book Chapters
The State of the Informal Economy
Available as a download from HSRC Press website
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Working Papers
South Africa’s Informal Economy: A Statistical Profile
This paper presents a statistical profile of informal employment in South Africa from 2005 to 2007, and attempts to identify the economic...
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Books & Book Chapters
Chapter 4 – From Street to Informal Shopping Concourse: Urban Design Solutions
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Journal Articles
Developmental Local Government in Post-Apartheid South Africa? A Feminist Rethinking of the State and Development in the Context of Neo-liberalism
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Research Reports
Informal Economy Monitoring Study Sector Report: Street Vendors
This report synthesizes qualitative and quantitative data from the first (2012) round of IEMS fieldwork in the street vendor sector in five...
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Research Reports
Executive Summary, Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Waste Pickers in Durban, South Africa
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Journal Articles
Extending Occupational Health and Safety to Urban Street Vendors: Reflections From a Project in Durban, South Africa
Abstract: This article focuses on an action-research project which is attempting to extend occupational health and safety to a group of street...
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