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

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  • Organizing Briefs

    Informal Workers and Collective Bargaining: Five Case Studies

    This brief summarizes the findings of a set of case studies of collective bargaining by informal workers in five different countries. Included...

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  • Research Reports

    The Informal Sector in Ghana

    From the paper: 80 percent of the Ghanaian workforce is employed in the informal sector. The sector is characterized by underemployment,...

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  • Journal Articles

    When men do women’s work: structural adjustment, unemployment and changing gender relations in the informal economy of Accra, GhanaThe Journal of Modern African Studies

    Abstract: Economic crisis and structural adjustment in Ghana have put large numbers of formal sector employees and civil servants out of...

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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

    Informal Employment: Rethinking Workforce Development

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  • Research Reports

    Women Street Traders in Urban South Africa: A Synthesis of Selected Research Findings

    Centre for Social and Development Studies (CSDS) Research Report, No. 15

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  • Research Reports

    Trading on a grant: Integrating formal and informal social protection in post-apartheid migrant networks

    Brooks World Poverty Institute Working Paper, No. 75

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  • Organizing Briefs

    Organizing on the Streets: A Study of Reclaimers in the Streets of Cape Town

     This brief is part of the WIEGO Publication Series. View list of all WIEGO briefs.

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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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