All posts in South Africa
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Research Reports
Reconceptualizing the urban “informal sector” in underdeveloped countries: An overview of the Brazilian, Indian and South African cases
Paper written for GLU Conference, Mumbai, 22-24 February 2009
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Journal Articles
Poor health kills small businesses: Illness and microenterprise in South Africa
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Books & Book Chapters
Definitions, Data and the Informal Economy in South Africa: A Critical Analysis
Chapter can be accessed through Google Scholar or download the book, The Development Decade? in its entirety.
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Journal Articles
Estimating the Causal Effect of Enforcement on Minimum Wage Compliance: The Case of South AfricaReview of Development Economics
This article is included in a special issue of the journal which includes 11 articles focused on informality.
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Research Reports
Nothing about us without us: A case study of the dynamics of the informal workplace in Mitchell’s Plain Town Centre
This research paper is part of the Development and Labour Monograph Series.
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Research Reports
Technology at the base of the pyramid: insights from Ahmedabad (India), Durban (South Africa) and Lima (Peru)
Final report for the Technology and the Future of Work Project undertaken by Practical Action and WIEGO with support from the Rockefeller...
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Research Reports
Um resumo dos resultados da pesquisa sobre o cuidado das crianças e trabalhadoras informais de 6 organizações de base (OBs) de trabalhadoras/es pobres
Esta publicação é um resumo de “Nossos filhos não recebem a atenção que merecem”: Um resumo dos resultados da pesquisa sobre...
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Statistical Briefs
Informal Workers in Urban South Africa: A Statistical Snapshot
This brief offers details of the urban informal workers in South Africa’s metros, with a further focus on three cities.
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Research Reports
Voice Regulation in the Informal Economy and New Forms of Work
Abstract:This paper draws comparisons between the situation of Black workers in Apartheid South Africa and workers in the contemporary South...
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Research Reports
Characteristics of informal economy workers and their households: Concepts and measurement using household surveys
(Master’s thesis) University of Natal, Durban, South Africa
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