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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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