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Mamuna Mohammed, a head load porter (kayayei), carries bananas through Agbogbloshie Market in Accra, Ghana

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  • Organizing Briefs

    Mapping of the Policy Context and Catadores Organizations in Maputo, Mozambique

     This brief is part of the WIEGO Publication Series. View list of all WIEGO briefs.

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  • Research Reports

    Paid Work, Women’s Empowerment and Inclusive Growth: Transforming the Structures of Constraint

    This research paper examines the extent to which the structure of economic opportunities generated by a country’s growth strategies...

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  • Research Reports

    The Improvisers

    A report about the number of Kenyan youth joining the informal economy because of the high unemployment rate in the country.   A related...

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  • Organizing Briefs

    Informal Workers and Collective Bargaining: Five Case Studies

    This brief summarizes the findings of a set of case studies of collective bargaining by informal workers in five different countries. Included...

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  • Research Reports

    The Informal Sector in Ghana

    From the paper: 80 percent of the Ghanaian workforce is employed in the informal sector. The sector is characterized by underemployment,...

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  • Journal Articles

    When men do women’s work: structural adjustment, unemployment and changing gender relations in the informal economy of Accra, GhanaThe Journal of Modern African Studies

    Abstract: Economic crisis and structural adjustment in Ghana have put large numbers of formal sector employees and civil servants out of...

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  • Journal Articles

    Beyond urban vulnerability: interrogating the social sustainability of a livelihood in the informal economy of Nigerian cities.

    Aba is a politically volatile, economically vibrant but environmentally poor city that is a microcosm of social conditions in the Nigerian...

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  • Research Reports

    Deciphering African Informal Economies

    Note prepared for the WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference.

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  • City/Country Level Reports

    Local Government in Transition – A Gendered Analysis of Trends in Urban Policy and Practice Regarding Street Trading in Five South African Cities

    Centre for Social and Development Studies (CSDS) Research Report, No. 18

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  • Research Reports

    Adverse incorporation and agrarian policy in South Africa: Or, how not to connect the rural poor to growth

    (Paper presented at the Escaping Poverty Traps: Connecting the Chronically Poor to Economic Growth Conference, Washington, D.C., 26-27 February,...

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