Description: Further DetailsTitle: Identity EconomicsCondition: NewSubtitle: Social Networks and the Informal Economy in NigeriaISBN-10: 1847010164EAN: 9781847010162ISBN: 9781847010162Publisher: James CurreyFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 02/18/2010Description: This book is essential reading for those interested in the role of the informal economy in contemporary processes of growth and economic governance in Africa.Why have informal enterprise networks failed to promote economic development in Africa? Although social networks were thought to offer a solution to state incapacity and market failure, the proliferation of socially embedded enterprise networks across Africa has generated disorder and economic decline rather than development. This book challenges the prevailing assumption that the problem of African development lies in bad cultural institutions by showingthat informal economic governance in Nigeria is shaped, not just by culture, but by the disruptive effects of rapid liberalization, state decline and political capture. Identity Economics traces the rise of two dynamic informal enterprise clusters in Nigeria, and explores their slide into trajectories of Pentecostalism, poverty and violent vigilantism. Drawing on over twenty years of empirical research on African informal economies, the author highlights the institutional legacies, networking strategies and globalizing dynamics that shape the regulatory role of social networks in Africa's largest and most turbulent economy. Through an ethnography of informal economicgovernance, this book shows how ties of ethnicity, class, gender and religion are used to restructure enterprise networks in response to contemporary economic challenges. Moving beyond primordialist interpretations of African culture, attention is drawn to the critical role of the state and the macro-economic policy environment in shaping trajectories of informal economic governance. KATE MEAGHER is a former Research Associate at Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford and is currently a Lecturer in the Development Studies Institute at the London School of Economics. Nigeria: HEBNLanguage: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 216mmItem Length: 138mmAuthor: Kate MeagherGenre: Business & FinanceBook Series: African IssuesRelease Year: 2010 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Identity Economics
Title: Identity Economics
Subtitle: Social Networks and the Informal Economy in Nigeria
ISBN-10: 1847010164
EAN: 9781847010162
ISBN: 9781847010162
Release Date: 02/18/2010
Release Year: 2010
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Business & Finance
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Identity Economics : Social Networks and the Informal Economy in Nigeria
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, The Limited
Publication Year: 2010
Subject: History & Theory, General, Economic Conditions, Development / Economic Development, Economics / General
Item Height: 0.5 in
Item Weight: 10 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, Business & Economics
Author: Kate Meagher
Item Length: 8.5 in
Series: African Issues Ser.
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
