Hugon, Philippe - In: Mondes en développement n° 166 (2014) 2, pp. 17-30
</titre> In the early 1970s, we participated in the debates on the informal sector initiated by Hart for Ghana (1971) and the ILO report concerning Kenya (1972) and we conducted several field surveys in Africa. In this paper, we first recall the founding debates, concerning petty commodity production....