All posts in Africa
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Research Reports
Women Working in the Informal Sector in Africa: New Methods and New Data
Paper prepared for the United Nations Statistics Division, the Gender and Development Programme of the United Nations Development Programme...
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Research Reports
Informal Employment in Namibia 2008
From the introduction: This paper reports on analysis of data from Namibia’s 2008 Labour Force Survey (LFS) so as to describe and compare...
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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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Research Reports
Human Development Report: Liberia
Briefing note on Liberia for the Human Development Report 2015
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Journal Articles
Street trade, neoliberalisation and the control of space: Nairobi’s Central Business District in the era of entrepreneurial urbanism.Journal of Eastern African Studies
The article discusses this hypothesis by examining the evolution of spatial politics on the streets of Nairobi’s Central Business District...
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Journal Articles
Gender and informal livelihoods: Coping strategies and perceptions of waste pickers in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America
This article (read the abstract here) was published in a special issue of the International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy. The special...
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Research Reports
People Working Informally: Negotiating the Use of Public Spaces in Durban City
Paper for panel entitled “Urban Responses to Street Traders: A Comparative Perspective from India, Kenya, and South...
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Research Reports
Extending Social Protection to Informal Workers in the Horticulture Global Value Chain
Social Protection Discussion Paper Series, No. 0216
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Journal Articles
Poor health kills small businesses: Illness and microenterprise in South Africa
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Books & Book Chapters
Definitions, Data and the Informal Economy in South Africa: A Critical Analysis
Chapter can be accessed through Google Scholar or download the book, The Development Decade? in its entirety.
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