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  • Research Reports

    Sem almofadas para amenizar o tombo – Sumário Executivo

    Report available in English here. Informe disponible en español aquí. Fact Sheet available in English here. Ficha Técnica disponible en español...

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  • Organizing Briefs

    Informal Workers and Collective Bargaining: Five Case Studies

    This brief summarizes the findings of a set of case studies of collective bargaining by informal workers in five different countries. Included...

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  • Research Reports

    Law, Rights and Regulation for Street Vending in Globalising Ahmedabad

    Abstract: This working paper forms part of the research project, Making Space for the Poor: Law, Rights, Regulation and Street-Trade in the...

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  • Journal Articles

    Why Evictions Do Not Deter Street Traders: Case Study in Accra, GhanaGhana Social Science Journal

    Abstract: Like many major cities in developing countries, Accra faces increasing congestion of vehicles, pedestrians and traders around its...

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  • Working Papers

    Perceptions of Costs and Benefits of Informal-Formal Linkages: Market and Street Vendors in Accra, Ghana

    This paper investigates ways in which linkages between the informal and formal segments of an economy yield benefits to, or impose costs...

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  • Journal Articles

    The Right to Work on the Street: Public Space and Constitutional Rights.Planning Theory

    Do people have a right to work on the street? If so, what are the constraints and conditions attached to this right? Historically, municipal...

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  • Research Reports

    Better OHS for Market Traders and Street Vendors in Accra, Ghana

    This is a summary of a case study by Tony Dzidzinyo Dogbe and Suki Annan.

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  • Presentations

    Ghana Country Presentation

    OHS Learning Meeting May 2011

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  • Stories/Case Studies

    Saving the “Mother Market”: Mobilizing Street Vendors in Durban

    When a historic market in Durban, South Africa was threatened by commercial development, market workers and street vendors, with the support...

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    Robert Neuwirth: The Power of the Informal Economy

    TED Summary:Robert Neuwirth spent four years among the chaotic stalls of street markets, talking to pushcart hawkers and gray marketers,...

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