James Ferguson examines the rise of social welfare programs in southern Africa in which
states give cash payments to their low income citizens. These programs, Ferguson argues …

A digital anthropologist examines the online lives of millions of people in China, India, Brazil,
and across the Middle East—home to most of the world's internet users—and discovers that …

Marketplace exchange occupies a central place in the lives of poor consumers and
entrepreneurs across the world. The subsistence marketplaces literature has systematically …

This book aims to provide a philosophical underpinning to translation and relate translation
to development. The second aim flows from the first section's argument that societies …

Empirical work on micro and small firms focuses on developed countries, while existing work
on develo** countries is all too often based on small samples taken from ad hoc …

Survival and growth-oriented entrepreneurs follow qualitatively different logics. In this article
we retrace the scattered previous theorization of this distinction and present a consolidated …

The informal sector is typically characterized as being very heterogeneous and possibly
composed of two clearly distinct segments, sometimes called the lower and upper tiers …

Within the private sectors of low-and middle-income countries exists a significant productivity
gap between a small number of highly productive large-and medium-sized enterprises and …

As a Somali working since high school in the United Arab Emirates, Osman considers
himself “blessed” to be in a Muslim country, though citizenship, with the security it offers …

In South Africa, small, medium, and micro enterprises (SMMEs) have been recognized as
the critical driving force to alleviate some economic challenges that the country faces. The …