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

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  • Journal Articles

    Efficient lighting uptake among the urban poor: evidence from a Kenyan informal settlementEnvironment and Urbanization

    This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO. 

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  • Research Reports

    Promoting the Interests of Women in the Informal Economy: An Analysis of Street Trader Organizations in South Africa

    Centre for Social and Development Studies (CSDS) Research Report, No. 19

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  • Research Reports

    Understanding self-employment at the margins of the South African economy: Findings from a pilot study on qualitative approaches to self-employment

    Report for the National Income Dynamics Study Steering Committee, Draft

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  • Journal Articles

    Falling through the Regulatory Cracks: Street Selling of Pesticides and Poisoning among Urban Youth in South AfricaInternational Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health

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  • Journal Articles

    Developmental Local Government in Post-Apartheid South Africa? A Feminist Rethinking of the State and Development in the Context of Neo-liberalism

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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

    Informal employment, social protection and social capital: Dimensions of resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa

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