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Mamuna Mohammed, a head load porter (kayayei), carries bananas through Agbogbloshie Market in Accra, Ghana

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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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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Poverty, Legal Empowerment and Informal Business in South Africa

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    South Africa: Transition Under Pressure

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  • Research Reports

    Regulatory Innovation in The Governance of Decent Work for Domestic Workers in South Africa: Access to Justice and the Commission on Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration

    LLDRL Working Paper Series #7

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  • Research Reports

    Capitalism and the Common Man – Four Decades of Development in Africa and S Asia

    Unpublished paper written for Graduate Institute, Annual Lecture, Geneva, 23 September 2010

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  • Journal Articles

    Informality and Collective Organising: identities, alliances and transnational activism in Africa

    Abstract:

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  • Working Papers

    Street Trade in Africa: A Review

    Despite the advances in modern retailing, millions of people throughout the world still make their living partly or wholly through selling...

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  • Journal Articles

    Economic consequences of injury and resulting family coping strategies in Ghana

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  • Research Reports

    ‘Legal Empowerment of the Poor’ Versus ‘Right to the City’: Implications for Access to Housing in Urban Africa

    The challenge of urban deprivation and exclusion in the urban South has given rise to varied and shifting policies and ideas. Two sets of...

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  • Research Reports

    Salud y seguridad ocupacional para proveedores de servicios de catering indígena en Acra, Ghana

    en español

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