Region: Africa

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...

Executive Summary – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Waste Pickers in Nakuru, Kenya

Informal Economy Budget Analysis: Accra Metropolis

WIEGO’s Informal Economy Budget Analysis (IEBA) examines how government budgets address the needs and interests of different groups of informal...

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...

WIEGO Resource Document – Informal Economy Budget Analysis: Greater Monrovia

This paper aims to assess whether the government budget in Liberia address the needs of informal workers, in particular street vendors, market...

Organizing Informal Women Workers

Paper prepared for UNRISD Gender Policy Report.Abstract:

Dumping on Women: Gender and privatisation of waste management

Statistics on Informal Employment in South Africa

This brief summarizes statistics on employment – and, in particular, on urban informal employment – in South Africa.

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.

Informalisation and the Reconfiguration of Labour Relations in the Durban Clothing Industry