History, Debate and Theory

Constraints to Growth and Employment in Durban: Evidence from the Informal Economy

The Lighthouse Effect and Beyond

Laws or Luck?

ILO Office in Brazil, Working Paper No. 5

Employment Change and Economic Vulnerability in the US

The Spatial Reproduction of Urban PovertyEconomic & Political Weekly

This article highlights, from the vantage point of workers in the resettlement colony, how the restructuring processes of large formal sector...

Beyond the Factory: Globalisation, Informalisation of Production and the New Locations of Labour

This essay foregrounds the phenomenon of informalised self-employment and explores its implications for potentially new forms of labour activism....

Beyond Formality and Informality

Presidential intervention and the changing ‘politics of survival’ in Kampala’s informal economyLondon School of Economics and Political Science

This paper uses the case of Uganda’s capital Kampala to explore how political configurations overturn structures of city governance, with...

The Informal Economy, Social Protection and Empowerment: Linkages And Good Practices For Poverty Reduction

Rethinking the Informal Economy: Linkages with the Formal Economy and the Formal Regulatory Environment