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

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  • Resource Documents

    Informal Economy Budget Analysis: Greater Monrovia

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  • Research Reports

    Organizing Informal Women Workers

    Paper prepared for UNRISD Gender Policy Report.Abstract:

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Dumping on Women: Gender and privatisation of waste management

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  • Statistical Briefs

    Statistics on Informal Employment in South Africa

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

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Definitions, Data and the Informal Economy in South Africa: A Critical Analysis

    Chapter can be accessed through Google Scholar or download the book, The Development Decade? in its entirety.

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Informalisation and the Reconfiguration of Labour Relations in the Durban Clothing Industry

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  • Journal Articles

    Day labor, informality and vulnerability in South Africa and the United StatesInternational Journal of Manpower

    Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to compare conditions in informal day-labor markets in South Africa and the USA to better understand...

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  • Journal Articles

    Business Start-ups and Their Prospects of Success in South African TownshipsSouth African Review of Sociology

    Abstract: PeThere is consensus within South African society that black entrepreneurship needs to become a more widespread phenomenon. To...

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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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  • Resource Documents

    Promoting Decent Work for Domestic Workers: Lessons From Five Countries

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