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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

    Enhancing Lobbying Capacity of Women Street Vendors: The Challenges in the Kenyan Policy Environment

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    Women leaders and the sense of power: clientelism and citizenship at the Dantokpa market in Cotonou, Benin

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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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    Decent Work Country Profile Tanzania (Mainland)

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    The Informal Self-employed in Africa

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    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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    The Informal Sector, Productivity, and Enforcement in West Africa: A Firm-level AnalysisReview of Development Economics

    This article is included in a special issue of the journal which includes 11 articles focused on informality. 

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    Sumário Executivo – Estudo de Monitoramento da Economia Informal: Vendedores Ambulantes em Acra, Gana

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    Social regionalism in the Southern Africa Development Community: The international, regional and national interplay of labour alternative dispute resolution mechanisms

    Abstract: The Southern African Development Community region (SADC) has seen a trend toward applying Alternative Dispute Settlement (ADR)...

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    “We Are Good at Surviving”: Street Hustling in Addis Ababa’s Inner CityUrban Forum

    Abstract: Recent studies of the informal economy have tried to understand how the politics of informal actors and their attempts at organizing...

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