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Research Reports
Role of the Informal Sector in Coping with Economic Crisis in Thailand and Zambia
Abstract: This working paper takes a close look at how people in two countries – viz. Thailand and Zambia – and in particular those working...
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Working Papers
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...
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Journal Articles
In the Shadow of the States: The Informalities of Chinese Petty Entrepreneurship in NigeriaJournal of Current Chinese Affairs
The burgeoning interstate relation between China and Nigeria is in fact hiding the vulnerable condition of transnational Chinese petty entrepreneurship. ...
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Journal Articles
From protection to repression: the politics of street vending
Abstract: The political evolution of Kampala under the National Resistance Movement (NRM) has profoundly affected the fortunes of the city’s...
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Books & Book Chapters
Dumping on Women: Gender and privatisation of waste management
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Research Reports
The growth and organisation of a precariat: Working in the clothing industry in Johannesburg’s Inner city
7th GLU Conference, „The Politics of Labour and Development‟ 28-30 September 2011, Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Books & Book Chapters
Chapter 2 – Turning Warwick Around
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Books & Book Chapters
The Informal Economy
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Research Reports
Informal Economy Monitoring Study Sector Report: Street Vendors
This report synthesizes qualitative and quantitative data from the first (2012) round of IEMS fieldwork in the street vendor sector in five...
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Research Reports
Executive Summary, Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Waste Pickers in Durban, South Africa
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