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

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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

    ASR Forum: Engaging with African Informal Economies: Social Inclusion of Adverse Incorporation? INCORPORATION? (Introduction)African Studies Review

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  • Journal Articles

    Youth poverty, employment and livelihoods: social and economic implications of living with insecurity in Arusha, Tanzania

    This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO. 

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  • Research Reports

    Street Vending in African Cities: A Synthesis of Empirical Findings from Kenya, Cote D’Ivoire, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Uganda and South Africa

    Background Paper for the World Bank’s 2005 World Development Report

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  • Research Reports

    Promoting the Interests of Women in the Informal Economy: An Analysis of Street Trader Organizations in South Africa

    Centre for Social and Development Studies (CSDS) Research Report, No. 19

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  • Research Reports

    Understanding self-employment at the margins of the South African economy: Findings from a pilot study on qualitative approaches to self-employment

    Report for the National Income Dynamics Study Steering Committee, Draft

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  • Organizing Briefs

    Options for Organizing Waste Pickers in South Africa

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

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  • City/Country Level Reports

    Foreign Street Traders in Inner City Durban: Survey Results and Policy Dilemmas

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Innovative Practices for the Urban Informal Economy

    An expert group meeting was convened to discuss case studies of regulatory inform of the urban informal sector in six developing country...

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  • Research Reports

    “I carry people and goods across the border for a living”

    Informal cross-border couriers (bomalayisha) have transported people and goods between Zimbabwe and South Africa for several decades.

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