South Africa is gripped by high and rising levels of unemployment and poverty, which have conspired to create a society that is one of the most unequal in the world today. This is not helped by the fact that the troubled global and local economies…
Internationalization has become an important feature of the informal sector in West Africa, in the last few decades. Yet, official trade and financial data provide a very misleading picture of the patterns and magnitudes of cross border trade in the…