The "secret economy" has acted as both an instant and dangerous solution, exploited by political regimes to mitigate the social impact of crises resulting from their own liberal policies.
Many of the “disorganized” merchants rejected the attempts of the municipal officials to integrate them into the organized "trade centers" that had been established under a project titled "One hundred shops in each municipality". Instead, they continue to sell in the bazaars before the eyes of the authorities.
It is a male-dominated space par excellence. The majority of the merchants in the market are men while most of the shoppers are women who usually feel uncomfortable in the...
Exploring the dynamics of the correlation and interaction between informal economy and the general structures of the economy in Egypt, and consequently, the nature of the prevailing political economy, far...
The private sector in Egypt is the informal economy. It makes up most of the Gross Domestic Product (GPD) and employs most of the wage-earners. This sector, however, is characterized...
Thirty-five years of neoliberal policies have nurtured and sustained the "patterns of poor development” that Morocco has gotten to know very well.
A closer look at the phenomenon of the “women-mules”; the female smugglers who smuggle goods from the border crossing of “Ceuta”, the Moroccan city occupied by Spain, to the popular...
Examining the parallel economy in Morocco by studying the slums in the cities’ outskirts, where misery, violence and despair are intertwined.
In Algeria, as elsewhere, the state is not less powerful than the informal market but it is dominated by interest groups that have no other aim than maintaining their control...
The article attempts to map the smuggling activities across the Egyptian borders, in all their different directions, routes, aspects and structure. It considers the geographic, social, political and economic morphologies...
