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Research Reports
Urban Livelihoods and Food and Nutrition Security in Greater Accra, Ghana
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Research Report, No. 112
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Organizing Briefs
Informal Workers and Collective Bargaining: Five Case Studies
This brief summarizes the findings of a set of case studies of collective bargaining by informal workers in five different countries. Included...
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Research Reports
The Informal Sector in Ghana
From the paper: 80 percent of the Ghanaian workforce is employed in the informal sector. The sector is characterized by underemployment,...
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Research Reports
Unlocking the Labor Force: An Economic Update on Cameroon
From a news article by The World Bank about this paper: “The labor market in Cameroon is characterized by a large informal sector,...
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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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Journal Articles
Challenging city imaginaries: Street traders’ struggles in Warwick Junction
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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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Books & Book Chapters
National Labour Legislation in an Informal Context: Women Workers in Export Horticulture in South Africa
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