Africa

Social regionalism in the Southern Africa Development Community: The international, regional and national interplay of labour alternative dispute resolution mechanisms

Abstract: The Southern African Development Community region (SADC) has seen a trend toward applying Alternative Dispute Settlement (ADR)...

Informal Institutions and Personal Rule in Urban GhanaAfrican Studies Review

Abstract: Contrary to expectations of modern democratic development, the establishment of liberal-democratic institutions in Ghana has not...

Community-level adaptation to minimize vulnerability and exploit opportunities in Kampala’s wetlandsEnvironment and Urbanization

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

Refusing to be Cast Aside: Waste Pickers Organising Around the World

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Trading on a grant: Integrating formal and informal social protection in post-apartheid migrant networks

Brooks World Poverty Institute Working Paper, No. 75

Poor health kills small businesses: Illness and microenterprise in South Africa

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Organising in the Taxi Industry: The South African Experience

Sumário Executivo – Estudo de Monitoramento da Economia Informal: Vendedoras e vendedores ambulantes em Durban, na África do Sul

Mediating from the margins: The role of intermediaries in facilitating participation in markets by poor producersSouth African Journal of Labour Relations

Abstract: This article argues that the preponderance of market intermediaries is driven by two imprimaturs. The first relates to the global...

Pensions and development: Social security as complementary to programmes of reconstruction and developmentDevelopment Southern Africa