Africa

Trader associations and urban food systems in Ghana: Institutionalist approaches to understanding urban collective action

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The Informal Sector in Ghana Under Siege

Contaminated Identities: Mercury and marginalisation in Ghana’s artisanal mining sectorGeoforum

“God First, Second the Market”: A Case Study of the Sirleaf Market Women’s Fund of Liberia

This Case Study presents some of the first steps being taken in Liberia, to find solutions to the problems women traders face which normally...

Managing Informality: Local Government Practices and Approaches Towards the Informal Economy in Africa

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Social Capital or Analytical Liability: Social Networks and African Informal EconomiesGlobal Networks

Abstract The rise of the ‘social capitalist’ paradigm has turned social networks into a concept that conceals more than it reveals. In this...

Informal Workers and Collective Bargaining: Five Case Studies

This brief summarizes the findings of a set of case studies of collective bargaining by informal workers in five different countries. Included...

The Informal Sector in Ghana

From the paper: 80 percent of the Ghanaian workforce is employed in the informal sector. The sector is characterized by underemployment,...

Human Development Report: Liberia

Briefing note on Liberia for the Human Development Report 2015

Eking out a living: the livelihood implications of urban space regulation on street hawking in Accra, Ghana

Abstract: Street hawking as a source of livelihood across the developing world has often raised a lot of concerns regarding hygiene, slum,...