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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: Vendedoras e vendedores ambulantes em Nakuru, Quênia

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  • Journal Articles

    Bringing Formal Business Laws to Cameroon’s Informal Sector: Lessons and Cautions from the Tax Law ExampleWashington University Global Studies Law Review

    Abstract: A substantial majority of non-agricultural workers in a developing country such as Cameroon engage in legal businesses below the...

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  • Journal Articles

    Home-Based Enterprises in Urban Space: Obligation for Strategic Planning?Berkeley Planning Journal

    One major manifestation of rapid urbanization and underdevelopment is the re-emergence of informal sector activities. This trend includes...

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  • Journal Articles

    The confounding influence of urban informality on innovation and production specialisation in production clusters: evidence from Nairobi

    Abstract: This paper investigates two agglomeration economies, innovation and production specialisation, within Nairobi’s handicraft...

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  • Research Reports

    Organising Workers in the Informal Economy: The Experience of the Self Employed Women’s Union, 1994-2004

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  • Journal Articles

    The Exclusion of Street Traders from the Benefits of the FIFA 2010 World Cup in South Africa

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Trade unions and the challenge of the informalisation of work

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Chapter 3 – Different Sectors, Different Challenges

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Children, Citizenship and Child Support: The Child Support Grant in South Africa

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  • Journal Articles

    Revisiting Agency Work in Namibia and South Africa: Any Lessons from the Decent Work Agenda and the Flexicurity Approach?International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations

    Abstract: Namibia has recently introduced policies regarding the regulation of agency work, and South Africa is in the process of doing the...

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