Africa

Household Enterprises in Mozambique: Key to Poverty Reduction but Not on the Development Agenda?

Household enterprises—usually one-person-operated tiny informal enterprises—are a rapidly growing source of employment in Sub-Saharan Africa,...

Policy Recommendations, Informal Economy Monitoring Study – Nakuru’s Waste Pickers: Realities & Recommendations

Bringing Formal Business Laws to Cameroon’s Informal Sector: Lessons and Cautions from the Tax Law ExampleWashington University Global Studies Law Review

Abstract: A substantial majority of non-agricultural workers in a developing country such as Cameroon engage in legal businesses below the...

Embracing Uncertainty: Young People on the Move in Addis Ababa’s Inner City

A cross-sectional survey to assess household sanitation practices associated with uptake of “Clean Team” serviced home toilets in Kumasi, Ghana

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

Organizing in the Informal Economy: A Case Study of the Clothing Industry in South Africa

In Focus Programme, SEED Working Paper, No. 37

Towards a Right to Work: The Rationale for an Employment Guarantee in South Africa

Paper presented at the PLAAS Studies in Poverty and Inequality and Isandla Institute Conference on Inequality and Poverty in South Africa,...

Options for Organizing Waste Pickers in South Africa

 This brief is part of the WIEGO Publication Series. View list of all WIEGO briefs.

Low-waged and Informal Employment in South Africa

Executive Summary – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Street Vendors