Urban Policies and the Right to the City
Author: Bernard Jouve
Publisher: Presses Universitaires de Lyon
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 186
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The Long Shadow of Informality
Author: Franziska Ohnsorge
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2022-02-09
Total Pages: 397
ISBN-13: 1464817545
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA large percentage of workers and firms operate in the informal economy, outside the line of sight of governments in emerging market and developing economies. This may hold back the recovery in these economies from the deep recessions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic--unless governments adopt a broad set of policies to address the challenges of widespread informality. This study is the first comprehensive analysis of the extent of informality and its implications for a durable economic recovery and for long-term development. It finds that pervasive informality is associated with significantly weaker economic outcomes--including lower government resources to combat recessions, lower per capita incomes, greater poverty, less financial development, and weaker investment and productivity.
Rebel Streets and the Informal Economy
Author: Alison Brown
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-02-24
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1317280091
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStreet trade is a critical and highly visible component of the informal economy, linked to global systems of exchange. Yet policy responses are dismissive and evictions commonplace. Despite being progressively marginalised from public space, street traders in the global south are engaged in spatial and political battlegrounds to reclaim space, and claim de facto property rights over their place of work, through quiet infiltration, union power, or direct action. This book explores 'rebel streets', the challenges faced by informal economy actors and how organised groups are seeking to reframe legal understandings to create new claims to space and urban rights. The book sets out new thinking and a conceptual framework for improved understanding of the plural relationship between law, rights, and space for the informal economy, the contest between traditional, modernist and rights-based approaches to development, and impacts on the urban working poor. With a focus on street trading, the book seeks to reframe the legal context in which modern informal economies operate, drawing on key areas of academic inquiry and case studies of how vendors are staking claim to urban rights. The book argues for a reconceptualisation of legal instruments to provide a rights-based framework for urban work that recognises the legitimacy of urban informal economies, the scope for collective management of urban resources, and the social value of public space as a site for urban livelihoods. It will be of interest to students and scholars of geography, economics, urban studies, development studies, political studies and law.
Democracy in Ghana
Author: Jeffrey W. Paller
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-03-07
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 1316513300
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA detailed account of politics in Ghana's urban neighborhoods, providing a new way to understand African democracy and development.
Innovative Policies for the Urban Informal Economy
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 144
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKRevisiting the Informal Sector
Author: Sarbajit Chaudhuri
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2009-10-15
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 1441911944
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides insight into the diverse aspects of the informal sector, its role in the context of unemployment, child labor, globalization and environment, as well as its multi-faceted interaction with the other sectors of the economy.
Women and the Informal Economy in Urban Africa
Author: Mary Njeri Kinyanjui
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Published: 2014-06-12
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1780326335
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this highly original work, Mary Njeri Kinyanjui explores the trajectory of women's movement from the margins of urbanization into the centres of business activities in Nairobi and its accompanying implications for urban planning. While women in much of Africa have struggled to gain urban citizenship and continue to be weighed down by poor education, low income and confinement to domestic responsibilities due to patriarchic norms, a new form of urban dynamism - partly informed by the informal economy - is now enabling them to manage poverty, create jobs and link to the circuits of capital and labour. Relying on social ties, reciprocity, sharing and collaboration, women's informal 'solidarity entrepreneurialism' is taking them away from the margins of business activity and catapulting them into the centre. Bringing together key issues of gender, economic informality and urban planning in Africa, Kinyanjui demonstrates that women have become a critical factor in the making of a postcolonial city.
Africa's Informal Workers
Author: Ilda Lindell
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Published: 2013-04-04
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1848138334
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfrica's Informal Workers is a vigorous examination of the informalization and casualization of work, which is changing livelihoods in Africa and beyond. Gathering cases from nine countries and cities across sub-Saharan Africa, and from a range of sectors, this volume goes beyond the usual focus on household ‘coping strategies’ and individual agency, addressing the growing number of collective organizations through which informal workers make themselves visible and articulate their demands and interests. The emerging picture is that of a highly diverse landscape of organized actors, providing grounds for tension but also opportunities for alliance. The collection examines attempts at organizing across the formal-informal work spheres, and explores the novel trend of transnational organizing by informal workers. Part of the ground-breaking Africa Now series, Africa’s Informal Workers is a timely exploration of deep, ongoing economic, political and social transformations.
The Informal Economy in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: Leandro Medina
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Published: 2017-07-10
Total Pages: 31
ISBN-13: 1484309030
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe multiple indicator-multiple cause (MIMIC) method is a well-established tool for measuring informal economic activity. However, it has been criticized because GDP is used both as a cause and indicator variable. To address this issue, this paper applies for the first time the light intensity approach (instead of GDP). It also uses the Predictive Mean Matching (PMM) method to estimate the size of the informal economy for Sub-Saharan African countries over 24 years. Results suggest that informal economy in Sub-Saharan Africa remains among the largest in the world, although this share has been very gradually declining. It also finds significant heterogeneity, with informality ranging from a low of 20 to 25 percent in Mauritius, South Africa and Namibia to a high of 50 to 65 percent in Benin, Tanzania and Nigeria.
Women and Men in the Informal Economy
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Published: 2013
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9789221281702
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis publication provides, for the first time, direct measures of informal employment inside and outside informal enterprises for 47 countries. It also presents statistics on the composition and contribution of the informal economy as well as on specific groups of urban informal workers.
