Remaking Africa's Informal Economies
Youth, Entrepreneurship and the Promise of Inclusion at the Bottom of the Pyramid
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5776914 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C Dolan (0000-0003-3939-6607, SOAS University of London), Dinah Rajak (0000-0002-6605-7611, University of Sussex) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 514-529 |
| Publication date | 2016-03-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Development Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0388 • E-ISSN: 1743-9140 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00220388.2015.1126249 |
| OpenAlex | W1816961283 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 64 |
| References cited | 34 |
In recent years, the quest for 'inclusive markets' that incorporate Africa's youth has become a key focus of national and international development efforts, with so-called bottom of the pyramid (BoP) initiatives increasingly seen as a way to draw the continent's poor into new networks of global capitalism. SSA has become a fertile frontier for such systems, as capital sets its sights on the continents' vast 'under-served' informal economies, harnessing the entrepreneurial mettle of youth to create new markets for a range of products, from solar lanterns and shampoo to cook stoves and sanitary pads. Drawing on ethnographic research with youth entrepreneurs, we trace the processes of individual and collective 'transformation' that the mission of (self-) empowerment through entrepreneurship seeks to bring about. We argue that, while such systems are meant to bring those below the poverty line above it, the 'line' is reified and reinforced through a range of discursive and strategic practices that actively construct and embed distinctions between the past and the future, valuable and valueless, and the idle and productive in Africa's informal economies
Frontier · Informal sector · Innovation and Socioeconomic Development · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
Entrepreneurship as a solution to extreme poverty
Todos(as) emprendedores(as)! Subjetividad y salud mental en un proceso de capacitación en emprendimiento
You Say Social Agenda, I Say My Job
Ethical Complexity of Social Change
On Ethical Violations in Microfinance Backed Small Businesses
Pharmaceuticalised livelihoods
Motorcycle Taxis, Extended Lockdown and Inequality at Work in Kampala, Uganda
Resituating Africa’s Urban Informal Food Sector
Innovation is the Answer! But is Development the Question? Assessing Innovation Against the Capabilities Approach to Development
The price of becoming your own boss
Inclusion, exploitation or unfair advantage? The ambiguities of community participation in a South African special economic zone
Who Wants to Become a Role Model? Personal Narratives of Success and Internal Dynamics of Change in Nairobi’s Ghettos
To Be 'Entrepreneured
Examining the legitimacy of inclusive innovation processes
Multinationals, international business, and poverty
Anthropology and inclusive development
Managing precarity? Civil society groups and donor retreat in the Eastern Caribbean
Conforming with the urban ideal? ‘New urbanites’ in Rwanda’s emerging towns
Developmental spaces? Developmental Psychology and urban geographies of youth in sub-Saharan Africa
Moving beyond employment and earnings
Work and Rural Livelihoods
The Developmental Potential of Frugal Innovation among Mobile Money Agents in Kitwe, Zambia
Frugal Innovation and Development Research
Understanding West Africa’s informal workers as working class
Young people and land in Zimbabwe
African Development and the Marginalisation of Domestic Capitalists
Trade ‘outside the law’
The curious case of domestic capitalists in Africa
Reading development failure
The union has reoriented towards entrepreneurship
Becoming a repair entrepreneur
Worker, businessman, entrepreneur
Between unemployment and enterprise in neoliberal India
The cultural politics of new Tibetan entrepreneurship in contemporary China
Solar Power and its Discontents
Formalization and its Discontents
Subsidising Extraction
Mellom administrasjon og innovasjon – om entreprenørskapets begrensninger i en alaskansk kontekst
Crisis and credit
Start-up Wolf
Africa's "youth employment" crisis is actually a "missing jobs" crisis
Cannibalizing the Informal Economy
Leaving No One Behind
The Anthropology of Extraction
Cocreation at the Base of the Pyramid
Re-framing popular governance in Brazil
Working in Chains
Hopeful City
Incubators at the Frontiers of Capital
Refugees in the IT Sector
Entrepreneurship-As-Struggle
Network marketing and state legitimacy in China
Architectures of millennial development
Making plans through people
Young People in Newfoundland and Labrador
Produire des données au village. Le cas d'une expérimentation contrôlée randomisée en Afrique de l'Est
Modalities of agency in a corporate volunteering program
Young People's Aspirations in an Uncertain World
Aspiring Minds
Fluctuating formality
Speculative futures at the bottom of the pyramid
Acceleration, development and technocapitalism at the Silicon Cape of Africa
Selling with Prejudice
To be One's Own Boss
The real economy of Zaire
World Development Report 2000/2001
In Good Company
Poverty Capital
The Mirage of Marketing to the Bottom of the Pyramid
Petty Capitalists and Globalization
Virtualism
Misteri i Kapitalit
The enterprising peasant—Economic development in Gombe Emirate, North Eastern State, Nigeria 1900–1968
Audit Cultures
The geopolitics of South African cities
Devices and Desires
Business as a development agent
Asr Forum
Citizenship Prepaid
Re-siting corporate responsibility
Seeing Like an Oil Company
Bioexpectations
Next Practices
Empowerment Money
Millennial Capitalism
Making the Economic Habitus
The 100th object
The return of the broker
Anthropology at the bottom of the pyramid
The Marketization of Poverty
Strange circulations
Governing development
| Unique citing works | 64 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,82 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 64 |