Theme: Links with Economic Growth/Crisis

Women and Informality: A Global Picture, the Global Movement SAIS Review

Over the past two decades, employment in the informal sector has risen rapidly in all regions in the world. Until the recent Asian economic...

Institutions and Female Entrepreneurship

Addressing Informality, Reducing PovertyPoverty in Focus

There is increasing recognition that decent and productive employment is an essential pathway to poverty reduction. Most of the working poor...

The tangled web of associational life: Urban governance and the politics of popular livelihoods in Nigeria

China’s Neglected Informal Economy: Reality and TheoryModern China

Abstract: The informal economy—defined as workers who have no security of employment, receive few or no benefits, and are often unprotected...

Governance Structure and Labour Market Outcomes in Garment Embellishment Chains

Informal business and poverty in South Africa: Rethinking the paradigmLaw, Democracy and Development

Analysing policy discourse concerning the informal economy in South Africa, the article explicates in detail the paucity of (even ostensibly...

Informality in Africa: A Review

This paper examines the realities of informal employment in sub-Saharan Africa, where a significant proportion of employment activity and...

Legal reforms for the self-employed: three urban cases

Four out of five urban workers in modern India are engaged in the informal economy, and half of these are self-employed. This article examines...

Informality in South Asia: A Review

This paper seeks to explore the diversity of the informal economy across five countries in South Asia: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan,...