Securing livelihoods
Subtitle: informal economy practices and institutions
By: edited by Isabelle Hillenkamp, Frédéric Lapeyre, and Andreia Lemaître
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780199687015
Subjects: Informal sector (Economics); Economics; Sociological aspects; Microfinance
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: informal economy, vulnerabilities, and popular security-enhancing practices / Isabelle Hillenkamp, Frédéric Lapeyre, and Andreia Lemaître; title: 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; title: Solidarity and protection in Bolivian popular economy / Isabelle Hillenkamp; title: Self-managed work, social protection, and community development: the case of the UST Cooperative (Argentina) / Gonzalo Vázquez; title: 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; title: 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; title: Microcredit policies in Brazil: an analysis of community development banks / Jeová Carvalho de França Filho, Ariádne Scalfoni Rigo, and Jeová Torres Silva Júnior; title: Demand for microcredit, informal finance and vulnerability in rural Morocco / Salène Morvant-Roux, Isabelle Guérin, and Marc Roesch; title: 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; title: Exploring the black-box of economic informality: social networks and institutional change among micro and small enterprises in Nairobi, Kenya / Edoardo Totolo; title: Part III. Formalizing the informal? A critical assessment. Determinants of earning in informal self-employment: the case of Ghana / James Heintz and Lynda Pickbourn; title: From the street to the store: the formalization of street vendors in Quito, Ecuador / Sergio Ferragut and Georgina M. Gómez; title: Formalizing the informal in Rwanda: from artisanal to modern brick and tile ovens / An Ansoms and Jude Murison; title: Neoliberal reforms, regulatory change, and the informal economy: the case of Turkey from a comparative perspective / Basak Kus; title: Postface: another look at the informal sector, its many stakes and challenges / Jean-Philippe Peemans.