Business Rights
CA Approach
care economy research
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Civil Society
Colonial Administration
Communal Property Rights Regimes
Community Based Monitoring Systems
Decent Work
Decent Work Agenda
DWCPs
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Formal Health Care Systems
Home Based Care
human rights advocacy
ILO's Decent Work Agenda
ILO’s Decent Work Agenda
Informal Economy
Informal Economy Workers
Informal Health
Informal Health Sector
informal sector regulation
Informal Sector Workers
Irrigation Furrows
labour rights enforcement
Legal Empowerment
legal empowerment in informal economies
NSSF
SADC Country
SADC Member State
social protection policy
Street Vending
sub-Saharan Africa studies
Waste Pickers
Water Committee Members
Product details
- ISBN 9781409411192
- Weight: 476g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 19 May 2011
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Despite providing society with a set of crucial services, large groups of workers in the informal economy are subject to exclusion and discrimination, and their lives are characterised by various types of vulnerabilities and deprivations that result from the denial of social, economic, political and legal protection. Although not new to the development vocabulary, the informal economy has received renewed attention in recent years largely due to the ILO's 'decent work' agenda and various efforts to promote 'legal empowerment of the poor'. With an explicit focus on labour rights, the book focuses on a nuanced understanding of the regulatory and operational challenges and dilemmas related to implementing the two approaches in selected countries in sub-Saharan Africa. In addition to analyzing structures and relations of power between the formal and the informal economies, the book critically discusses the work of governments, civil society organizations and the poor themselves to address the daily challenges of living in the informal economy.
Dan Banik is an Associate Professor of Development Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway.
