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Securing livelihoods : informal economy practices and institutions /
This text describes how people develop their own strategies to solve their problems through the use of interpersonal networks associations, and other community-based arrangements.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: informal economy, vulnerabilities, and popular security-enhancing practices / Isabelle Hillenkamp, Frédéric Lapeyre, and Andreia Lemaître
- Part I.A plurality of socio-economic logics: new Polanyian approaches to informality and vulnerability. Popular cooperatives and local development in South-East Brazil: towards socio-economic pluralism / Andreia Lemaître
- Solidarity and protection in Bolivian popular economy / Isabelle Hillenkamp
- Self-managed work, social protection, and community development: the case of the UST Cooperative (Argentina) / Gonzalo Vázquez
- An analysis of the socio-economic logics underpinning formal and informal strategies for coping with economic hardships in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo / Maïté le Polain and Marthe Nyssens.
- Part II. The role of financial practices and institutions in securing livelihoods. Financial practices as adaptations to increasing vulnerability: the dynamics of solidarity and protection in the suburbs of Rosario, Argentina / Hadrien Saiag
- Microcredit policies in Brazil: an analysis of community development banks / Jeová Carvalho de França Filho, Ariádne Scalfoni Rigo, and Jeová Torres Silva Júnior
- Demand for microcredit, informal finance and vulnerability in rural Morocco / Salène Morvant-Roux, Isabelle Guérin, and Marc Roesch
- Informal and formal microfinance in urban Sub-Saharan African markets: The case of micro-entrepreneurs in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso / Pierre-Germain Umuhire and Marthe Nyssens
- Exploring the black-box of economic informality: social networks and institutional change among micro and small enterprises in Nairobi, Kenya / Edoardo Totolo.
- Part III. Formalizing the informal? A critical assessment. Determinants of earning in informal self-employment: the case of Ghana / James Heintz and Lynda Pickbourn
- From the street to the store: the formalization of street vendors in Quito, Ecuador / Sergio Ferragut and Georgina M. Gómez
- Formalizing the informal in Rwanda: from artisanal to modern brick and tile ovens / An Ansoms and Jude Murison
- Neoliberal reforms, regulatory change, and the informal economy: the case of Turkey from a comparative perspective / Basak Kus
- Postface: another look at the informal sector, its many stakes and challenges / Jean-Philippe Peemans.