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

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  • Journal Articles

    Accumulation by dispossession and the informal economy – Struggles over knowledge, being and waste at a Soweto garbage dumpEnvironment and Planning D: Society and Space

    Melanie Samson, former coordinator of WIEGO’s work with waste pickers in Africa,  recently published an article entitled “Accumulation...

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  • Research Reports

    Resumen de los resultados del estudio sobre las trabajadoras en empleo informal y el cuidado infantil en seis organizaciones con base de miembros de trabajadoras pobres

    Esta publicación es un resumen de “Nuestros niños no reciben la atención que merecen”: Una síntesis de los resultados de la investigación...

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  • Journal Articles

    Employment vulnerability and earnings in urban West Africa

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Informal workers in Kenya and transnational organizing: Networking and leveraging resources

    Abstract:

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  • Journal Articles

    Assessment of the Health Impact of Occupational Risk in Africa: Current Situation and Methodological IssuesEpidemiology

    This paper presents information from the current monitoring systems in Africa, mainly Southern Africa, for occupationalillness and injury...

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  • Research Reports

    Decent Work Country Profile Tanzania (Mainland)

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    The Informal Self-employed in Africa

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  • Research Reports

    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...

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  • Journal Articles

    The Informal Sector, Productivity, and Enforcement in West Africa: A Firm-level AnalysisReview of Development Economics

    This article is included in a special issue of the journal which includes 11 articles focused on informality. 

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  • Research Reports

    Sumário Executivo – Estudo de Monitoramento da Economia Informal: Vendedores Ambulantes em Acra, Gana

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