The Tangled Web of Associational Life: Urban Governance and the Politics of Popular Livelihoods in Nigeria

Kate Meagher

No wp-2010-050, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: This paper examines how decentralization and informalization are reshaping urban governance in contemporary Africa. By exploring the interface between urban institutional failures and popular organizational solutions, the paper considers how informal governance processes feed into wider structural and political outcomes. Attention paid to issues of institutional process and power relations reveals how the limited access of the poor to resources and decision-making structures may distort rather than enhance their agency within decentralized urban governance systems.

Keywords: Study and teaching (Economics); Informal sector; Urban economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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