Urban Appropriation and Transformation : Bicycle Taxi and Handcart Operators.

This book is about emerging informal responses to unemployment in Malawi. To the bicycle taxi and handcart operators who are at the centre of the book, informality is a means for negotiating newer experiences and challenges associated with urbanisation. Jimu richly documents how informal economy act...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Jimu, Ignasio Malizani
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford : Langaa RPCIG, 2008.
Subjects:
Informal sector (Economics) > Malawi > Mzuzu.
Urban poor > Employment > Malawi > Mzuzu.
Local transit > Malawi > Mzuzu.
Economic history
Informal sector (Economics)
Local transit
Urban poor > Employment
Mzuzu (Malawi) > Economic conditions.
Malawi > Mzuzu
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:This book is about emerging informal responses to unemployment in Malawi. To the bicycle taxi and handcart operators who are at the centre of the book, informality is a means for negotiating newer experiences and challenges associated with urbanisation. Jimu richly documents how informal economy activities continue to represent grassroots responses to widespread poverty, unavailability of meaningful employment opportunities and the failure of the state as well as the private and the non-state sectors to respond to escalating demand for formal sector jobs. Multiplicity of activities and straddl.
Physical Description:1 online resource (162 pages)
ISBN:9789956717637
9956717630
9956558753
9789956558759

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