Africa

A Study of Working Conditions inthe Zanzibar Seaweed Farming Industry

This study aims to produce a, clear portrait of working conditions in the seaweed farming industry in Zanzibar from a worker perspective....

City Report – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Waste Pickers in Nakuru, Kenya

Budgeting and the Informal Economy in Accra, Ghana

About 86 per cent of Ghanaian workers work in the informal economy but together they earn only 40 per cent of national income. This is because...

Eking out a living: the livelihood implications of urban space regulation on street hawking in Accra, Ghana

Abstract: Street hawking as a source of livelihood across the developing world has often raised a lot of concerns regarding hygiene, slum,...

Addressing the Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Needs of Informal Workers: Market Traders and Street Vendors in Accra, Ghana

This case study illustrates the efforts of two membership-based organizations of market traders and street vendors in the Greater Accra Metropolitan...

Voice Regulation in the Informal Economy and New Forms of Work

Abstract:This paper draws comparisons between the situation of Black workers in Apartheid South Africa and workers in the contemporary South...

A Census of Street Vendors in eThekwini Municipality

Poor health kills small businesses: Illness and microenterprise in South Africa

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Human Resource Development in the Informal Economy

The reproductive and occupational health of women street vendors in Johannesburg, South AfricaSocial Science and Medicine