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

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  • Research Reports

    Report on Domestic Workers in Ghana

    Overview of the domestic worker sector in Ghana

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  • Research Reports

    Sumário Executivo – Estudo de Monitoramento da Economia Informal: Vendedores Ambulantes em Acra, Gana

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  • Journal Articles

    Bwala Five FiveWorld Environment Magazine

    This photodocumentary about “Ghana: Picking Waste for a Living” begins on page 56.

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  • Research Reports

    Youth Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa

    This report is part of the The Africa Development Forum Series. “The Africa Development Forum Series was created in 2009 to focus on...

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  • Journal Articles

    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. 

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  • Research Reports

    Deciphering African Informal Economies

    Note prepared for the WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference.

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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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