All posts in South Africa
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Research Reports
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
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Research Reports
Promoting the Interests of Women in the Informal Economy: An Analysis of Street Trader Organizations in South Africa
Centre for Social and Development Studies (CSDS) Research Report, No. 19
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Research Reports
Understanding self-employment at the margins of the South African economy: Findings from a pilot study on qualitative approaches to self-employment
Report for the National Income Dynamics Study Steering Committee, Draft
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Organizing Briefs
Options for Organizing Waste Pickers in South Africa
This brief is part of the WIEGO Publication Series. View list of all WIEGO briefs.
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City/Country Level Reports
Foreign Street Traders in Inner City Durban: Survey Results and Policy Dilemmas
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Books & Book Chapters
Innovative Practices for the Urban Informal Economy
An expert group meeting was convened to discuss case studies of regulatory inform of the urban informal sector in six developing country...
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Research Reports
“I carry people and goods across the border for a living”
Informal cross-border couriers (bomalayisha) have transported people and goods between Zimbabwe and South Africa for several decades.
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Journal Articles
Understanding South African social security through recent household surveys: New opportunities and continuing gapsDevelopment Southern Africa
The aim of this article is to identify some of the difficult areas in researching the South African social security system, and to offer...
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Journal Articles
Promoting Workplace Health and Safety in Urban Public Space: Reflections from Durban, South Africa
This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO.
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Books & Book Chapters
Chains of Fortune: Linking Women Producers and Workers with Global Markets
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