Traders navigate red tape, displacement, lack of infrastructure, unsafe conditions, and limited access to finance.

Ghana’s informal waste sector, long overlooked and largely unregulated could generate billions of cedis annually if properly structured and supported, according to a new study by the Institute of ...

Urban space is monetized. Survival in urban areas is therefore largely dependent on the dictates of methodological individualism, capitalist norms and values, which are invariably linked to ...

There is a dentist in Mitchell County, North Carolina who often gets paid in art. Artists who don't have health insurance will offer something like a painting or a sculpture in exchange for dental ...

In the mid-twentieth century, the combination of poverty and inequality generated political instability that gave rise to socialist and nationalist movements in different Amazonian countries. In ...

A new study by the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) has shown that Ghana’s informal waste ...

Elmond Bandauko works at the University of Alberta as an Assistant Professor of Human Geography. He received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), ...

Filipino comfort food made of braised beef in a sweet-savory soy sauce served with garlic fried rice — for P120 ($2) a plate in Pasay City near the Philippine capital.

Matteo Rizzo does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Compared to urban residents, more people in rural areas engage in the informal economy, like home repair and subsistence food production, among other things, according to rural sociologists. There is ...