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How do women entrepreneurs survive in Ghana’s informal economy? We went to a local market to ask them

By Nadia Zahoor, Associate Professor, Queen Mary University of London
The informal economy is the basis of everyday economic life across sub-Saharan Africa. In Ghana, as in many low- and middle-income contexts, a lot of retail trade, food distribution, artisanal production and service provision happens outside formal regulatory frameworks.

Women occupy a prominent position in this world. They trade in open-air markets, process and sell foodstuffs,…The Conversation


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