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| Title: | An evaluation of research and policies on informal sector employment in developing countries |
| Author: | King, Kenneth |
| Year: | 1987 |
| Issue: | 19 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Occasional papers (ISSN 1363-0342) |
| City of publisher: | Edinburgh |
| Publisher: | Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh |
| Geographic term: | developing countries |
| Subjects: | employment informal sector |
| Abstract: | With the concept of the informal sector there is an interplay first between external academic research and the formation of donor policy (ILO), and second between both external research and donor policy on the one hand and the formation of national policies (and local research) on the other. This double interaction is illustrated and evaluated by the crucially important case of Kenya. A brief 'prehistory' of the concept in Kenya and in Sussex is offered, and then over the period 1971 to 1987, some of the main data are reviewed that would be considered relevant to evaluating the incorporation of the informal sector concept into education-and-employment policy, as well as into more general development policy prescriptions in Kenya. A short section looks at some of the issues involved in what appears like a very major revisiting of the informal sector concept by the development assistance community in the late 1980s. Finally, a set of more general propositions are developed that are intended to offer both a retrospective commentary on some of the gaps and biases that have marked research and policy over the past decade and a half, and also some prospective suggestions about research. |