South Africa

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

Options for Organizing Waste Pickers in South Africa

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Children, Citizenship and Child Support: The Child Support Grant in South Africa

The Urban Informal Workforce: Waste Pickers/Recyclers

These findings are based on research conducted in 2012 as part of the Informal Economy Monitoring Study (IEMS), a project under Inclusive...

Informal business and poverty in South Africa: Rethinking the paradigmLaw, Democracy and Development

Analysing policy discourse concerning the informal economy in South Africa, the article explicates in detail the paucity of (even ostensibly...

‘The State in a Changing World’; plus ça change?: Reflections from the south on the World Bank’s 1997 World Development ReportJournal of International Development

Abstract: Drawing on South African experiences, this paper provides a critical evaluation of the World Bank’s 1997 World Development...

Dislocating modernity: Identity, space and representations of street trade in Durban, South Africa

South Africa’s cities have experienced dramatic changes over the past decade. Cities are now home to a multiracial population, and have been...

Organizing in South Africa’s Informal Economy: An Overview of Four Sectoral Case Studies

In Focus Programme, Series on Representation and Organization Building. Working Paper, No. 60

Addressing inequality and economic marginalisation

Cape Town: Institute for African Alternatives

Extending health and safety protection to informal workers: an analysis of small scale mining in KwaZulu-Natal

School of Development Studies Research Report 76