Region: Africa

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. 

Policy Recommendations, Informal Economy Monitoring Study – Nakuru’s Waste Pickers: Realities & Recommendations

Informal Institutions and Personal Rule in Urban GhanaAfrican Studies Review

Abstract: Contrary to expectations of modern democratic development, the establishment of liberal-democratic institutions in Ghana has not...

Efficient lighting uptake among the urban poor: evidence from a Kenyan informal settlementEnvironment and Urbanization

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

Sibongile Makhanya: Trading in Traditional Medicines

Before the Warwick Junction Project, which gave street vendors in Durban an infrastructure providing shelter and basic amenities, Sibongile...

DITSELA Online Workers’ Education Institute

The website describes DITSELA as follows: “Ditsela is a joint project of the two largest Labour Federations in South Africa, COSATU...

Johannesburg Street Traders Halt Operation Clean Sweep

In October 2013, law enforcement officers of the City of Johannesburg forcibly evicted over 6,000 street traders from a 24-block area in...

VIDEO: The case of South Africa’s Old Age Pension and Child Support Grant

Francie Lund from WIEGO presented “The Southern African model: The case of South Africa’s Old Age Pension and Child Support Grant”...

Durban’s Informal Economy Policy, 2001

This policy document was written to serve as a guide for the management and suport of workers in the informal economy in the city of Durban...

Mandeni Municipality Street Trading By-laws, 2005

This document contains the street trading by-laws for Mandeni Municipality.