Africa

Domestic Workers: Organizing the Patience Industry

Camarada Albertina Mundlovo is a domestic worker in Maputo, Mozambique. An Indian Ocean port city, Maputo is Mozambique’s largest economic...

Santé et sécurité au travail pour les commerçants et les vendeurs de rue d’Accra et de Takoradi (Ghana)

Unleashing the Economic Potential of Agglomeration in African Cities

This paper is part of the Global Urban Economic Dialogue Series of UN-Habitat. UN-Habitat describes the paper as follows: “Rapid urbanisation...

Household Enterprises in Mozambique: Key to Poverty Reduction but Not on the Development Agenda?

Household enterprises—usually one-person-operated tiny informal enterprises—are a rapidly growing source of employment in Sub-Saharan Africa,...

Policy Recommendations, Informal Economy Monitoring Study – Nakuru’s Waste Pickers: Realities & Recommendations

Bringing Formal Business Laws to Cameroon’s Informal Sector: Lessons and Cautions from the Tax Law ExampleWashington University Global Studies Law Review

Abstract: A substantial majority of non-agricultural workers in a developing country such as Cameroon engage in legal businesses below the...

Embracing Uncertainty: Young People on the Move in Addis Ababa’s Inner City

A cross-sectional survey to assess household sanitation practices associated with uptake of “Clean Team” serviced home toilets in Kumasi, Ghana

This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO.  

Organizing in the Informal Economy: A Case Study of the Minibus Taxi Industry in South Africa

In Focus Programme. SEED Working Paper, No. 39

Addressing inequality and economic marginalisation

Cape Town: Institute for African Alternatives