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Does Regulatory Quality Reduce Informal Economy? A Theoretical and Empirical Framework
Italy is characterised by a significant dualistic economy, which also includes an extensive underground sector. The aim of this study is to analyse...
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Informal Tyre Dealers in South Africa: an Assessment of Their Contributions to a Circular Economy
Faced with extraordinarily high unemployment, the long-term unemployed in South Africa increasingly have been securing livelihoods outside of...
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Strategies for Survival in an Informal Economy: Illegalities of Zimbabwean Informal Cross Border Traders at Ports of Entries in Southern Africa
Informal Cross Border Trade (ICBT) is mostly conducted by poor, vulnerable, small and unregistered traders who end up practising illegal activities...
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Understanding the Firm in the Informal Economy: A Research Agenda
Informal firms prevail and preoccupy a dominant share of the economic activity in many develo** countries. Yet, few attempts have been made to...
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Retiring in the Informal Economy: Implications for Social Policy Intervention for Ageing Workers in Ghana
Ghana’s economy is predominantly informal with about 80% of workers in small enterprises run and managed by family members with no fixed retirement...
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The Inclusion of International Migrants in the Informal Economy: From Policy to Practice
Globally and particularly in South Africa, the inclusion of international migrants in the informal economy has received significant attention in...
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Innovation and Flexibility: Nigerian Women in Durban’s Informal Economy
Nigerian women are known for their diligence in trading and starting their own informal businesses to be financially independent. This chapter draws...
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Informally Formal: Women’s Mutual Aid Organizations in the Informal Sector of the Economy
Who is included in civil society metrics? An ethnography of a women’s organization is used to explore the unaccounted—or under-accounted...
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Informal sector counterpower in Harare, Zimbabwe
African city governments have generally been harsh on the informal sector. Informal traders are considered a nuisance and unworthy of government...
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Collaboration or Competition? The Relationship Between Locals and Migrants in the Informal Economy
Over the past few years, there have been a number of tense confrontations between locals and migrants. Locals feel that migrants “steal jobs” and are...
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Conceptualising care: critical perspectives on informal care and inequality
Informal care occupies a paradoxical place in contemporary societies. It is at once reified as an inherent social good, and minimised, devalued, and...
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The landscape of informal economy research: a systematic review of transient trends, pivot, and emerging pattern: is there a spatial turn?
Informal economy (IE) activities contribute significantly to the contemporary urban dynamic. Multifaceted and prolific studies of IE are nearing...
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Informal land leasing and social relations: Insights from Zimbabwe’s small scale farms
This article examines the role of social relations in enabling informal land leasing in Zimbabwe's small scale (A1 villagised) settlements after the...
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Exploring the Nexus Between Informal Workers and the Social Security Scheme in Ghana
This study explored the nexus between informal workers and the social security scheme in Ghana. The explanatory sequential research design was used...
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Impact of Virtual Cash Economy on Livelihood Outcomes of Informal Cross Border Traders in Gweru, Zimbabwe
Informal Cross Border Trade (ICBT) is a viable economic activity for many people, in Zimbabwe, who have depended on it for survival during economic...
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Training Returns Among Informal Workers: Evidence from Urban Sites in Kenya and Tanzania
Training contributes to economic growth through raising productivity, enabling the use of new technologies and allowing workers to raise earnings...
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Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on livelihoods of informal workers in Kolkata: from sustainable livelihood perspective
The COVID-19 pandemic was not only a global health emergency but an economic crisis, adversely impacting global economic activities and posing a...
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The impact of public infrastructure investment on South Africa’s economy: evidence from social accounting matrix and computable general equilibrium-based approaches
This paper assesses the general equilibrium impacts of public infrastructure investment in the South African economy, as a case of an emerging...
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Unveiling the dynamics of informal settlements in quito: occupation, organisation, and infrastructure challenges
This paper investigates the factors sha** the social and spatial configuration of informal settlements in Quito, centring on the research question:...
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Are Informal and Semi-formal Hierarchical Lists Justified?
In their important book, Bell and Wang argue that hierarchies are here to stay, and the question moral philosophy should face is which hierarchies...