Links with Economic Growth/Crisis

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

Informal economy, informal state: the case of UzbekistanInternational Journal of Sociology and Social Policy

In the Soviet Union, the official command structure for economic production and distribution gave rise to, and depended upon, what has been...

Governance Structure and Labour Market Outcomes in Garment Embellishment Chains

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...

The Global Crisis, Unemployment and HIV/ AIDS: What Role for Public Works Programmes?

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...

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...

Working Women and Security: Self Employed Women’s Association’s Response to Crisis

Abstract: