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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

    Sumário Executivo – Estudo de Monitoramento da Economia Informal: Catadores de Nakuru, Quênia

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  • Journal Articles

    ASR Forum: Engaging with African Informal Economies: Social Inclusion of Adverse Incorporation? INCORPORATION? (Introduction)African Studies Review

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  • Journal Articles

    Community-level adaptation to minimize vulnerability and exploit opportunities in Kampala’s wetlandsEnvironment and Urbanization

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

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  • Stories/Case Studies

    The Launch of ‘Design with the Other 90%: CITIES’

    Reflections on the launch of  Design with the Other 90%: CITIES’ exhibition, a project by the Smithsonian-Cooper Hewitt, National Design...

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  • Stories/Case Studies

    Muitos comerciantes, uma só voz: Reflexões de líderes da MATO, África do Sul

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  • Legal Instruments

    Basic Conditions of Employment Act, Sectoral Determination 7: Domestic Worker Sector

    This sectoral determination makes special provision for basic conditions of employment for domestic workers, over and above the general provisions...

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  • Legal Instruments

    Draft Proposals for an Informal Trading Policy for the City of East London, 1995

    This policy paper serves as a proposal for an informal trading policy for the City of East London which ahs received considerable attention...

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  • Legal Instruments

    Maluti-A-Phofung Municipality Street Trading Removal and Impoundment Policy

    This policy serves to enforce a by-law relating to the supervision and control of the carrying on of the business of street vendors, peddlers...

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  • Legal Instruments

    South African Informal Traders Forum and Others Versus City of Johannesburg.

    This document outlines the court case between Informal Traders in the inner city of Johannesburg who in October 2013, officers of the City’s...

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  • Legal Instruments

    Unemployment Insurance Amendment Act, No 32 of 2003

    This Act amends the Unemployment Insurance Act of 2001.

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