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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

    Organising in the Taxi Industry: The South African Experience

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  • Research Reports

    City Report – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Street Vendors in Durban, South Africa

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  • Journal Articles

    Mediating from the margins: The role of intermediaries in facilitating participation in markets by poor producersSouth African Journal of Labour Relations

    Abstract: This article argues that the preponderance of market intermediaries is driven by two imprimaturs. The first relates to the global...

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    South Africa: Transition Under Pressure

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  • Journal Articles

    Hierarchies of care work in South Africa: nurses, social workers and home-based care workers

    This article by Francie Lund, who led WIEGO’s Social Protection Programme from 2000-2016, is chapter 21 (page 465-79) of the volume. ...

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  • Research Reports

    Women and Employment in Africa: A Framework For Action

    Background Document commissioned by the Danish Foreign Ministry for the Second Conference of the Africa Commission in November 2008

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  • Journal Articles

    The tangled web of associational life: Urban governance and the politics of popular livelihoods in Nigeria

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  • Journal Articles

    Trader associations and urban food systems in Ghana: Institutionalist approaches to understanding urban collective action

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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

    African Women in Food Processing: A Major, But Still Underestimated Sector of Their Contribution to the National Economy

    Paper prepared for the International Development Research Centre (IDRC)

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