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Region: Ghana

All posts in Ghana

  • Journal Articles

    Traders on the Run: Activities of Street Vendors in the Accra Metropolitan Area, GhanaNorwegian Journal of Geography

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  • Journal Articles

    Changes in Official Attitudes Towards Urban Agriculture in AccraAfrican Studies Quarterly

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  • Project Reports

    Building Capacity for Change: Developing Women’s Leadership and Business Skills

    This is an account of the “Developing Leadership & Business Skills for Informal Women Workers in Fair Trade” project, which took place...

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  • Resource Documents

    Promoting Decent Work for Domestic Workers: Lessons From Five Countries

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  • Budget Briefs

    Budgeting and the Informal Economy in Accra, Ghana

    About 86 per cent of Ghanaian workers work in the informal economy but together they earn only 40 per cent of national income. This is because...

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  • Journal Articles

    Promoting the Informal Sector as a Source of Gainful Employment in Developing Countries: Insights from GhanaThe International Journal of Human Resource Management

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  • Project Reports

    IDRC Final Report: Legal Empowerment of the Working Poor

    Summary of three-country study of law and the working poor, funded by IDRC (November 2011-March 2013)

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  • Journal Articles

    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...

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  • WIEGO Publication Series

    Informal Economy Budget Analysis: Accra Metropolis

    WIEGO’s Informal Economy Budget Analysis (IEBA) examines how government budgets address the needs and interests of different groups of informal...

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  • Journal Articles

    Mapping the Invisible and Real ‘African’ Economy: Urban E-waste CircuitryUrban Geography

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