Africa

Women leaders and the sense of power: clientelism and citizenship at the Dantokpa market in Cotonou, Benin

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“You just look at our work and see if you have any freedom on earth”: Ghanaian women’s accounts of their work and their health

Abstract: Research on women’s health in the developing world has focussed on reproductive issues and has defined women primarily as...

Technical Memorandum: United Republic of Tanzania labour administration and inspection audit

Paid Work, Women’s Empowerment and Inclusive Growth: Transforming the Structures of Constraint

This research paper examines the extent to which the structure of economic opportunities generated by a country’s growth strategies...

Women Working in the Informal Sector in Africa: New Methods and New Data

Paper prepared for the United Nations Statistics Division, the Gender and Development Programme of the United Nations Development Programme...

The Informal Sector, Productivity, and Enforcement in West Africa: A Firm-level AnalysisReview of Development Economics

This article is included in a special issue of the journal which includes 11 articles focused on informality. 

Executive Summary – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Street Vendors in Nakuru, Kenya

The Informal Economy Monitoring Study (IEMS) is designed to provide in-depth understanding of how informal workers are affected by and respond...

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...

ASR Forum: Engaging with African Informal Economies: Social Inclusion of Adverse Incorporation? INCORPORATION? (Introduction)African Studies Review

In the Shadow of the States: The Informalities of Chinese Petty Entrepreneurship in NigeriaJournal of Current Chinese Affairs

The burgeoning interstate relation between China and Nigeria is in fact hiding the vulnerable condition of transnational Chinese petty entrepreneurship. ...