The urban informal sector in sub-Saharan Africa: from bad to good (and back again?)

By D. Potts. 2008

159 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Law, Urban Studies

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/a802ff8b79a92b15a35e57bdbc6c7f9aa9ba4d71

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Economics and Econometrics

1. J. Battersby
2. Don W. Brown
3. G. McGranahan

In Law

1. J. Battersby
2. Don W. Brown
3. G. McGranahan

In Urban Studies

1. J. Battersby
2. Don W. Brown
3. J. Crush
4. G. McGranahan

Citations in the corpus

• Urban food insecurity in Cape Town, South Africa: An alternative approach to food access (2011, background): “The emphasis on the different characteristics of the two sectors exaggerated the disconnection between the two and neglected the underlying economic forces by which both are shaped (Potts, 2008:152).”
• The Crisis of Food Insecurity in African Cities (2012, background): “Most African cities also have very dynamic informal food economies.(39,80) Though a smaller overall proportion of surveyed households said they purchase food from informal vendors (70%), they tend to patronize them far more frequently for vegetables and cooked and processed food.”
• The urban informal economy, local inclusion and achieving a global green transformation (2016, background): “Ongoing trends indicate that the non-agricultural informal economy is expanding in urban areas, especially in countries experiencing rapid urbanisation (Elgin & Oyvat, 2013; Mitlin & Satterthwaite, 2013; Potts, 2008; UN-Habitat, 2003).”