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

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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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