Africa

Mean Streets: Migration, Xenophobia and Informality in South Africa

Changing Social Policy: The Child Support Grant in South Africa

Description from HSRC Press: An important historical record of one part of post-apartheid South Africa’s policymaking, Changing Social...

Technology, informal workers and cities: insights from Ahmedabad (India), Durban (South Africa) and Lima (Peru)

This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO.

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

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

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

Decent Work Country Profile Tanzania (Mainland)

Santé et sécurité au travail pour les traiteurs indigènes d’Accra (Ghana)

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Social Capital, Social Liabilities, and Political Capital: Social Networks and Informal Manufacturing in NigeriaAfrican Affairs

Abstract: This article addresses the question of why social networks have failed to promote economic development in Africa when they have...

City Report – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Street Vendors in Accra, Ghana