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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

    Understanding Formal and Informal Economy Labour Market Dynamics: A Conceptual and Statistical Review with Reference to South Africa

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  • Journal Articles

    Myths of Globalisation: Private Regulation and Farm Worker Livelihoods on Western Cape FarmsTransformation

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Nurturing a culture of compliance with domestic workers’ rights in South Africa

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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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  • Research Reports

    Capitalism and the Common Man – Four Decades of Development in Africa and S Asia

    Unpublished paper written for Graduate Institute, Annual Lecture, Geneva, 23 September 2010

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  • Journal Articles

    The multiple sites of urban governance: Insights from an African city

    Abstract:

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  • Statistical Briefs

    Statistics on Informal Employment in Kenya

    This brief summarizes statistics on employment – and, in particular, on urban informal employment – in Kenya.

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  • Research Reports

    Technical Memorandum: United Republic of Tanzania labour administration and inspection audit

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  • Research Reports

    Engendering Social Protection

    Conference Summary Report from an International Conference on Social Protection and Gender, held with social protection officials and civil...

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