The legal empowerment agenda : poverty, labour and the informal economy in Africa / / edited by Dan Banik

• Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (242 p.)
• Disciplina: 330
• Soggetto topico: Informal sector (Economics) - Law and legislation - Africa, Sub-Saharan
• Altri autori: BanikDan <1969->
• Note generali: First published 2011 by Ashgate Publishing.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; List of Figures, Tables and Map; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Towards an Effective Regulatory Framework for Labour Rights and Social Protection in Southern Africa; 3 Poverty, Legal Empowerment and Informal Business in South Africa; 4 Waste Management and the Workplace; 5 Formalising Trading Spaces and Places: An Analysis of the Informal Sector in Lusaka, Zambia; 6 The Complexities and Paradoxes of Governing the Informal Sector in Malawi ; 7 The Informal Health Industry in East Africa and Implementation of the Legal Empowerment of the Poor Agenda in Developing Cou8 Human Rights of the Working Poor in Uganda's Informal Sector; 9 Informal Labour and the Ethic of Care: Legal Protection of Care-givers in Malawi; 10 The Right To Water: An Inquiry into Legal Empowerment and Property Rights Formation in Tanzania; 11 Rights, Legal Empowerment and the Informal Economy in Africa: Concluding Remarks; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Defined as a process which increases access to justice and the legal rights of the poor, 'legal empowerment' is increasingly being considered to be an important tool in anti-poverty efforts in developing countries. This volume discusses the opportunities and constraints related to the enhancement of legal empowerment in the informal economy, with a focus on labour and business rights in Africa.
• Titolo autorizzato: The legal empowerment agenda
• ISBN: 1-351-88694-0; 1-315-23873-X; 1-283-08977-7; 9786613089779; 1-4094-1120-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910819680403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II