Region: Ghana

Perceptions of Costs and Benefits of Informal-Formal Linkages: Market and Street Vendors in Accra, Ghana

This paper investigates ways in which linkages between the informal and formal segments of an economy yield benefits to, or impose costs...

Statistics on Informal Employment in Ghana

This brief summarizes statistics on employment – and, in particular, on urban informal employment – in Ghana.The statistics are based on...

A Report on Street Vending in Ghana

Overview of regulatory issues concerning street vendors in Ghana

Our Children Do Not Get the Attention They Deserve

This report presents the results of a five-city research study examining informal women workers’ access to child care in Brazil, Ghana,...

Eking out a living: the livelihood implications of urban space regulation on street hawking in Accra, Ghana

Abstract: Street hawking as a source of livelihood across the developing world has often raised a lot of concerns regarding hygiene, slum,...

Long-term injury related disability in Ghana

Toward a Decent Work Regime for Informal Employment in Ghana: Some Preliminary Considerations

A summary of research findings on women informal workers and child care from six membership-based organizations

This publication is a summary of “Our children do not get the attention they deserve”: A synthesis of research finding on women informal...

Addressing the Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Needs of Informal Workers: Market Traders and Street Vendors in Accra, Ghana

This case study illustrates the efforts of two membership-based organizations of market traders and street vendors in the Greater Accra Metropolitan...

Street Vending in African Cities: A Synthesis of Empirical Findings from Kenya, Cote D’Ivoire, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Uganda and South Africa

Background Paper for the World Bank’s 2005 World Development Report