Africa

The Informal Self-employed in Africa

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...

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

Informal Sector and Employment Generation in Nigeria: An Error Correction Model

Abstract: This paper examines the impact of informal sector on employment generation in Nigeria during the period 1970 to 2010 making use...

Perceptions of Costs and Benefits of Informal-Formal Linkages: Market and Street Vendors in Accra, Ghana

This paper investigates ways in which linkages between the informal and formal segments of an economy yield benefits to, or impose costs...

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...

Deciphering African Informal Economies

Note prepared for the WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference.

Informal Employment: Rethinking Workforce Development

Women Street Traders in Urban South Africa: A Synthesis of Selected Research Findings

Centre for Social and Development Studies (CSDS) Research Report, No. 15

Trading on a grant: Integrating formal and informal social protection in post-apartheid migrant networks

Brooks World Poverty Institute Working Paper, No. 75