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

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Passport Please: The cross-border traders association in Zambia

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  • Journal Articles

    What’s Informal About the Informal Sector? Culture and the Construction of Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

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  • Research Reports

    Meeting Report of the WHO-ILO Joint Effort on Occupational Health and Safety in Africa: Occupational Health for Workers in the Informal Sector

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  • Research Reports

    Occupational Health & Safety for Market and Street Traders in Accra and Takoradi, Ghana

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  • Research Reports

    Impact of Micro-Finance on the Efficiency of Micro-Enterprises in Cape Coast

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  • Journal Articles

    Changes in Official Attitudes Towards Urban Agriculture in AccraAfrican Studies Quarterly

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  • Research Reports

    Executive Summary – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Waste Pickers in Nakuru, Kenya

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  • Worker Story

    Gaining Ground: The Cooperative Life of a Smallholder in Uganda

    With lives and livelihoods governed by so many forces beyond their control, women coffee producers like Jenipher Wettaka know it takes more...

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  • Working Papers

    Perceptions of Costs and Benefits of Informal-Formal Linkages: Market and Street Vendors in Accra, Ghana

    This paper investigates ways in which linkages between the informal and formal segments of an economy yield benefits to, or impose costs...

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  • Journal Articles

    Urban Markets in Lagos, Nigeria

    An emerging body of work on farmers markets and other traditional retail markets has recently come into focus among scholars concerned with...

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