Africa

Enhancing Lobbying Capacity of Women Street Vendors: The Challenges in the Kenyan Policy Environment

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Reclaiming Reusable and Recyclable Materials in Africa – A Critical Review of English Language Literature

This paper seeks to include Africa in the current international conversations about the situation of informal workers such as waste pickers....

Economic consequences of injury and resulting family coping strategies in Ghana

Occupational Health & Safety for Indigenous Caterers in Accra, Ghana

The Improvisers

A report about the number of Kenyan youth joining the informal economy because of the high unemployment rate in the country.   A related...

Informal Workers and Collective Bargaining: Five Case Studies

This brief summarizes the findings of a set of case studies of collective bargaining by informal workers in five different countries. Included...

The Informal Sector in Ghana

From the paper: 80 percent of the Ghanaian workforce is employed in the informal sector. The sector is characterized by underemployment,...

When men do women’s work: structural adjustment, unemployment and changing gender relations in the informal economy of Accra, GhanaThe Journal of Modern African Studies

Abstract: Economic crisis and structural adjustment in Ghana have put large numbers of formal sector employees and civil servants out of...

In the Shadow of the States: The Informalities of Chinese Petty Entrepreneurship in NigeriaJournal of Current Chinese Affairs

The burgeoning interstate relation between China and Nigeria is in fact hiding the vulnerable condition of transnational Chinese petty entrepreneurship. ...

From protection to repression: the politics of street vending

Abstract: The political evolution of Kampala under the National Resistance Movement (NRM) has profoundly affected the fortunes of the city’s...