Africa

Youth poverty, employment and livelihoods: social and economic implications of living with insecurity in Arusha, Tanzania

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

Deciphering African Informal Economies

Note prepared for the WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference.

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

Childcare Initiative Summary Report – Hindi

कामकाजी गरीब से संबंधित छह सदस्य-आधारित संगठनों (MBOs) से असंगठित महिला श्रमिकों और बच्चों की देखभाल पर शोध निष्कर्षों का सारांश