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Global Reports
No Cushion to Fall Back On The Global Economic Crisis and Informal Workers – Full Report
The research shows that informal enterprises and informal wage workers are affected in many of the same ways as formal firms and formal wage...
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Research Reports
City Report – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Street Vendors in Nakuru, Kenya
In Nakuru, WIEGO partnered with Kenya National Association of Street Vendors and Informal Traders (KENASVIT) to carry out this study.
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Research Reports
Executive Summary-Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Street Vendors in Durban, South Africa
This report examines street vending in Durban, South Africa. The Informal Economy Monitoring Study (IEMS) seeks to provide credible, grounded...
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Budget Briefs
Budgeting and the Informal Economy in Accra, Ghana
About 86 per cent of Ghanaian workers work in the informal economy but together they earn only 40 per cent of national income. This is because...
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Journal Articles
The unexpected power of informal workers in the public square: A comparison of Mexican and U.S. organizing models
Abstract: Street vendors in Mexico and day laborers in the United States, both groups of informal workers who labor in public space, face...
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Journal Articles
Politics of archiving: hawkers and pavement dwellers in Calcutta.Dialectical Anthropology
In the last decade, several influential scholars have rigorously worked on the impact of neoliberal globalization on the poor in the cities...
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Journal Articles
From protection to repression: the politics of street vending
Abstract: The political evolution of Kampala under the National Resistance Movement (NRM) has profoundly affected the fortunes of the city’s...
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Books & Book Chapters
Membership-Based Organizations of the Poor
The chapters in this book analyse different types of membership based organizations of the poor (MBOP). The book is characterised by a conviction...
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Journal Articles
Sustainable Urban Livelihoods and Marketplace Social Capital: Crisis and Strategy in Petty Trade
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City/Country Level Reports
Local Government in Transition – A Gendered Analysis of Trends in Urban Policy and Practice Regarding Street Trading in Five South African Cities
Centre for Social and Development Studies (CSDS) Research Report, No. 18
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