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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

    Technology at the base of the pyramid: insights from Ahmedabad (India), Durban (South Africa) and Lima (Peru)

    Final report for the Technology and the Future of Work Project undertaken by Practical Action and WIEGO with support from the Rockefeller...

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  • Research Reports

    Um resumo dos resultados da pesquisa sobre o cuidado das crianças e trabalhadoras informais de 6 organizações de base (OBs) de trabalhadoras/es pobres

    Esta publicação é um resumo de “Nossos filhos não recebem a atenção que merecem”: Um resumo dos resultados da pesquisa sobre...

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  • Statistical Briefs

    Informal Workers in Urban South Africa: A Statistical Snapshot

    This brief offers details of the urban informal workers in South Africa’s metros, with a further focus on three cities.

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    The empowerment trap: gender, poverty and the informal economy in sub-Saharan Africa

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  • Journal Articles

    Disabling governance: Privatisation of city markets and implications for vendors‟ associations in Kampala, Uganda

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  • Journal Articles

    What’s Informal About the Informal Sector? Culture and the Construction of Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

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  • Research Reports

    Meeting Report of the WHO-ILO Joint Effort on Occupational Health and Safety in Africa: Occupational Health for Workers in the Informal Sector

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  • Research Reports

    Paid Work, Women’s Empowerment and Inclusive Growth: Transforming the Structures of Constraint

    This research paper examines the extent to which the structure of economic opportunities generated by a country’s growth strategies...

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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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  • Research Reports