Aims at analysing and systematizing the health challenges faced by the poorest strata of urban workers and to discuss solutions. Uses interviews carried out with ILO and WHO staff members from different departments and programmes, completed with interviews with professionals from other...

Studies the role and functioning of mobile bankers (" tontiniers"). Includes a case study of a credit and savings association founded in 1971 in Cotonou and called "Operation 71".

Based on a survey of 63 "mobile bankers" and 83 of their customers conducted in 1992.

The informal sector is often seen as an unfair competition to the modern sector, and some call for a more stringent application of the legislation in the informal sector. In 1989, a survey of 92 informal sector enterprises in Cotonou was organised to investigate the nature and the extent of...