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First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 296 pages) : illustrations |
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data file |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
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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. |
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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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Informal sector (Economics)
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Informal sector (Economics) |
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Economics -- Sociological aspects.
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Economics -- Sociological aspects. |
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Microfinance.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General. |
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Microfinance. |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Hillenkamp, Isabelle, editor, author.
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Lapeyre, Frédéric, 1967- editor.
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Lemaître, Andreia, editor, author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Securing livelihoods. 1st ed. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2013 0199687013 (DLC) 2013941288 (OCoLC)837948125 |
| ISBN |
9780191510656 (electronic book) |
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0191510653 (electronic book) |
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9780199687015 |
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0199687013 |
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9780191766916 (electronic book) |
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0191766917 (electronic book) |
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