Africa

Estimating the Causal Effect of Enforcement on Minimum Wage Compliance: The Case of South AfricaReview of Development Economics

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

Nothing about us without us: A case study of the dynamics of the informal workplace in Mitchell’s Plain Town Centre

This research paper is part of the Development and Labour Monograph Series.

Technology at the base of the pyramid: insights from Ahmedabad (India), Durban (South Africa) and Lima (Peru)

Final report for the Technology and the Future of Work Project undertaken by Practical Action and WIEGO with support from the Rockefeller...

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...

Informal Workers in Urban South Africa: A Statistical Snapshot

This brief offers details of the urban informal workers in South Africa’s metros, with a further focus on three cities.

The tangled web of associational life: Urban governance and the politics of popular livelihoods in Nigeria

The politics of vulnerability: Exit, voice and capture in three Nigerian informal manufacturing clusters

Abstract:This book chapter examines whether informal economic associations provide an effective mechanism for political voice. Moreover,...

“You just look at our work and see if you have any freedom on earth”: Ghanaian women’s accounts of their work and their health

Abstract: Research on women’s health in the developing world has focussed on reproductive issues and has defined women primarily as...

Technical Memorandum: United Republic of Tanzania labour administration and inspection audit

Paid Work, Women’s Empowerment and Inclusive Growth: Transforming the Structures of Constraint

This research paper examines the extent to which the structure of economic opportunities generated by a country’s growth strategies...