Kate Meagher
KATE MEAGHER is an associate professor in development studies at the Department of International Development, London School of Economics. She has a DPhil in sociology from the University of Oxford, and has published widely on issues of African informal economies, including crossborder trade, labour informalisation, hybrid governance, taxation and youth unemployment.
Africa’s real economy

Africa’s real economy

by Kate Meagher | Oct 1, 2017

  Global competition and the active downsizing of formal jobs force most Africans to look elsewhere for a living Widespread recognition that the informal economy is expanding rather than declining across the developing world has drawn growing attention to...

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Kate Meagher
KATE MEAGHER is an associate professor in development studies at the Department of International Development, London School of Economics. She has a DPhil in sociology from the University of Oxford, and has published widely on issues of African informal economies, including crossborder trade, labour informalisation, hybrid governance, taxation and youth unemployment.
Africa’s real economy

Africa’s real economy

by Kate Meagher | Oct 1, 2017 |

  Global competition and the active downsizing of formal jobs force most Africans to look elsewhere for a living Widespread recognition that the informal economy is expanding rather than declining across the developing world has drawn growing attention to...