Identity economics (Record no. 7614)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781847010162
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 330.96MEA
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Meagher, Kate.
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Title Identity economics
Remainder of title social networks & the informal economy in Nigeria
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Rochester
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. James Currey
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2010
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xiv, 208 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-200) and index.
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Summary, etc. 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 showing that 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 economic governance, 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:
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Informal sector (Economics)--Africa.
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        UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dodoma UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dodoma Africa 01/17/2025   330.96MEA URD000079 01/31/2025 01/17/2025 Book