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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

    Informal Economy Monitoring Study Sector Report: Waste Pickers

    Waste pickers are one of the three urban informal worker groups – along with street vendors and home-based workers – who are the focus of...

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  • Journal Articles

    Pesticide Vendors in the Informal Sector: Trading Health for Income

    Abstract: South African low-income communities face many challenges (e.g., insufficient housing, poor service delivery, and abject poverty);...

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  • Journal Articles

    The Work and Lives of Street Waste Pickers in Pretoria—A Case Study of Recycling in South Africa’s Urban Informal EconomyUrban Forum

    Abstract: High levels of unemployment are a permanent feature in the urban areas of many developing countries. South Africa is no exception...

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  • City/Country Level Reports

    Policies, Regulations and Organizational Capacity of Women Street Vendors in Kenya

    IDS Discussion Paper Number 299

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Seen but not heard: Urban voice and citizenship for street traders

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  • Working Papers

    Street Trade in Africa: A Review

    Despite the advances in modern retailing, millions of people throughout the world still make their living partly or wholly through selling...

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  • Journal Articles

    The effect of recall on estimation of incidence rates for injury in Ghana

    The purpose of this study was to evaluate and estimate injury as one of the leading causes of adult mortality in most developing countries....

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  • Research Reports

    “God First, Second the Market”: A Case Study of the Sirleaf Market Women’s Fund of Liberia

    This Case Study presents some of the first steps being taken in Liberia, to find solutions to the problems women traders face which normally...

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  • Research Reports

    Managing Informality: Local Government Practices and Approaches Towards the Informal Economy in Africa

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  • Research Reports

    A Report on Street Vending in Ghana

    Overview of regulatory issues concerning street vendors in Ghana

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