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South Africa

All posts in South Africa

  • Worker Story

    Location, Location, Location: The Life of a Refugee Street Barber in Durban, South Africa

    Choma Choma Nalushaka made an arduous journey from war-torn Congo to South Africa—then waited years for his family to join him. He has established...

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  • Research Reports

    Sumário Executivo: Relatório do Setor Estudo de Monitoramento de Economia Informal: Catadores

     

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  • Research Reports

    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,...

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Crossing the Divide: Precarious Work and the Future of Labour

    this book shows how innovative organisational strategies are emerging in the Global South to bridge the widening divide between the formal...

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  • Research Reports

    People Working Informally: Negotiating the Use of Public Spaces in Durban City

    Paper for panel entitled “Urban Responses to Street Traders: A Comparative Perspective from India, Kenya, and South...

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  • Research Reports

    Extending Social Protection to Informal Workers in the Horticulture Global Value Chain

    Social Protection Discussion Paper Series, No. 0216

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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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  • Research Reports

    Stitching for Survival: Home-Based Clothing Operations in the Informal Economy

    The Experience of Two Women in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

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  • Briefs

    Budgeting and the Informal Economy in Durban, South Africa

    In 2014, 18 per cent of people employed in KwaZulu-Natal worked in an informal enterprise. In 2014/15, eThekwini’s budget was R38.8 billion...

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