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

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  • Resource Documents

    Perceptions of Costs and Benefits of Informal-Formal Linkages: Market and Street Vendors in Accra, Ghana

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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

    Women Street Traders in Urban South Africa: A Synthesis of Selected Research Findings

    Centre for Social and Development Studies (CSDS) Research Report, No. 15

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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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  • Technical Briefs

    Major International Events and the Working Poor: Selected Lessons for Social Actors Stemming from the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa

    This technical brief explores issues that arose before, during and after the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, with the aim of informing...

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  • Research Reports

    Organising in the Taxi Industry: The South African Experience

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  • Research Reports

    City Report – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Street Vendors in Durban, South Africa

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  • Journal Articles

    Mediating from the margins: The role of intermediaries in facilitating participation in markets by poor producersSouth African Journal of Labour Relations

    Abstract: This article argues that the preponderance of market intermediaries is driven by two imprimaturs. The first relates to the global...

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    South Africa: Transition Under Pressure

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  • Journal Articles

    Hierarchies of care work in South Africa: nurses, social workers and home-based care workers

    This article by Francie Lund, who led WIEGO’s Social Protection Programme from 2000-2016, is chapter 21 (page 465-79) of the volume. ...

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