The role of the informal economy in promoting urban sustainability: Evidence from a small Zimbabwean town.

Magidi, Martin

doi:10.1080/0376835x.2021.1925088

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“…The C1-6 micro-cluster focuses on the challenges posed by informal ‘urban sprawl’ to ‘sustainable development’ [ 75 ]. On the one hand, it group initiatives aimed at measuring and improving the conditions of informal settlements (‘urban upgrading’, ‘sustainable development goals’) [ 76 , 77 ], particularly, in relation to the challenges and opportunities of the energy transition (‘renewable energy’) and climate change (‘Paris agreement’); on the other hand, it discusses the role of the informal economy in the development of sustainable urbanism (‘green economy’, ‘inclusion’, ‘equity’) [ 78 ].…”

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Unveiling the intellectual structure of informality: Insights from the socioeconomic literature

Gómez-Cruz,

Anzola,

Batz Liñeiro

2024

PLoS ONE

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In the socioeconomic sphere, the concept of informality has been used to address issues pertaining to economic dynamics, institutions, work, poverty, settlements, the use of space, development, and sustainability, among others. This thematic range has given way to multiple discourses, definitions and approaches that mostly focus on a single phenomenon and conform to traditional disciplinary lines, making it difficult to fully understand informality and adequately inform policymaking. In this article, we carried out a multilevel co-word analysis with the purpose of unveiling the intellectual structure of socioeconomic informality. Co-occurring document keywords were used, initially, to delimit the scope of the socioeconomic dimension of informality (macro level) and, later, to identify its main concepts, themes (meso level) and sub-themes (micro level). Our results show that there is a corpus of research on socioeconomic informality that is sufficiently differentiable from other types of informality. This corpus, at the same time, can be divided into six major themes and 31 sub-themes related, more prominently, to the informal economy, informal settlements and informal institutions. Looking forward, the analysis suggests, an increasing focus on context and on the experience of multiple ‘informalities’ has the potential, on the one hand, to reveal links that help unify this historically fragmented corpus and, on the other hand, to give informality a meaning and identity that go beyond the traditional formal-informal dualism.

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confidence: 99%