Tag Archives: Informal sector

A Short Reading List on Economic Informality

A couple of days ago on Twitter I promised to do a short reading list on economic informality. Here goes: The work that introduced the concept of informal economy:   Hart, K. (1973). Informal Income Opportunities and Urban Employment in Ghana. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 11(1), 61–89. See also, Leys, C. (1973). Interpreting African… Read More »

CFP: The Informal and the Formal: Contested Categories of Socio-Economic Life

COMMISION ON URBAN ANTHROPOLOGY, IUAES ANNUAL CONFERENCE Gioiosa Marea, Sicily, 7-9 May 2010 The Informal and the Formal: Contested Categories of Socio-Economic Life Convenor: Italo Pardo (University of Kent) OUTLINE This conference recognizes both the empirical difficulty in categorising human activities as belonging strictly to the formal sector or the informal sector of the economy and the blurred… Read More »