Social capital or analytical liability? Social networks and African informal economies

By K. Meagher. 2005

191 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Taxing the Informal Economy: The Current State of Knowledge and Agendas for Future Research (2014, background): “…(Meagher, 2010, 2011), and broader literature that explores the nature of connections between the formal and informal sectors (Meagher & Lindell, 2013; Lindell, 2010) and the very definitions and conceptualisations of ‘informality’ and ‘informalisation’ (Meagher, 1995; Portes & Castells, 1989).”
• ‘I Don’t Trust the Phone; It Always Lies’ (2007, background): “In an article that explores the role of social networks in businesses across Africa, Kate Meagher (2005, 2006) argues that the essentialism and cultural determin-ism of social capitalist perspectives have distorted our understanding of the continent’s informal economies by conceptualizing networks a”