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

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  • Research Reports

    Childcare Initiative Summary Report – Hindi

    कामकाजी गरीब से संबंधित छह सदस्य-आधारित संगठनों (MBOs) से असंगठित महिला श्रमिकों और बच्चों की देखभाल पर शोध निष्कर्षों का सारांश

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  • Journal Articles

    Informal Economies and Urban Governance in Nigeria: Popular Empowerment or Political Exclusion?African Studies Review

    Abstract:

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  • Journal Articles

    “Glocal” Movements: Place Struggles and Transnational Organizing by Informal Workers

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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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  • City/Country Level Reports

    Occupational Health & Safety for Market and Street Traders in Accra and Takoradi, Ghana

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  • Research Reports

    Report on Domestic Workers in Ghana

    Overview of the domestic worker sector in Ghana

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  • Research Reports

    Policy Recommendations, Informal Economy Monitoring Study – Nakuru’s Street Vendors: Realities & Recommendations

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  • Journal Articles

    “We Are Good at Surviving”: Street Hustling in Addis Ababa’s Inner CityUrban Forum

    Abstract: Recent studies of the informal economy have tried to understand how the politics of informal actors and their attempts at organizing...

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  • Journal Articles

    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.  

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  • Research Reports

    Street Vending in African Cities: A Synthesis of Empirical Findings from Kenya, Cote D’Ivoire, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Uganda and South Africa

    Background Paper for the World Bank’s 2005 World Development Report

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