The informal sector of Sub-Saharan Africa is comprised of small and household enterprises that operate in the non-farm sector outside the protected employment of the formal wage sector. The sector was identified 40 years ago by the ILO representing a pool of surplus labor that was expected to be...

Intro -- Title page -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgement -- Contributors -- Foreword: Situating the role of information in the messy and complex context of the workplace -- 1 Work and information in modern society: a changing workplace -- Economic changes and information innovation...

Throughout the history of capitalism, street economy has found a space in the failures of the open market economy, but it has been ignored by the mainstream media and academy. As street economies pop up as a spontaneous solution to the failures of capitalism, these economies are an opportunity...

Informality and informal employment are wide-spread and growing phenomena in all regions of the world, particularly in low and middle income economies. This volume sheds light on the incidence and persistence of informality and the role of institutions and government regulations, and offers...

The New Institutional Economics has established itself as widely accepted extension to the standard neoclassical paradigm. Here, institutions are defined as commonly known rules that structure recurring interaction situations and the corresponding sanctioning mechanism. For-mal institutions...

The street food sector in Sub-Saharan Africa is a source of affordable and nutritious meals for the urban poor, while also being an important source of income for the women who dominate this sector. Despite the importance of this sector, many micro- and informal enterprises are labelled as...