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...

The site -- Developers -- Image and precedent -- Public urban planning -- Housing shortage and national priority -- Public/private partnership -- Buyers and villagers -- Capital and the shared ideological landscape -- Settlers and the land -- The state, mirroring, and shared legal frameworks.

This book analyses how informal economy traders and the marketplace institution dominate the local economy in African cities. According to the World Bank, being an African reduces the probability that an individual is an entrepreneur in the manufacturing sector by more than 95 percent. Exporting...

Obwohl internationale Migration vor allem ein Phänomen der Migration in Städte ist, liegen bisher kaum Untersuchungen zur Verknüpfung von Migration und Stadtentwicklung vor. Der vorliegende Sammelband untersucht zwei Schwerpunkte in diesem Schnittbereich: Das erste Thema widmet sich dem...