Slum Clearance and the Informal Economy in Nairobi

The Journal of Modern African Studies

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1992, Pages 221-236

  Macharia, Kinuthia ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMAL ECONOMY; SLUM CLEARANCE IMPACT; SOCIAL NETWORKS;

KENYA, NAIROBI;

EID: 0027085201     PISSN: 0022278X     EISSN: 14697777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022278X00010697     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. See Kinuthia Macharia, ‘The Role of Social Networks and the State in the Informal Sector: the case of Nairobi, Kenya’, Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, 1989.
2. Andrew Hake, African Metropolis: Nairobi's self-help city (London and New York, 1977), PP. 45–46.
3. East African Statistical Department, African Population of Kenya Colony and Protectorate: geographical and tribal studies (Nairobi, 1950).
4. Hake, op. cit. p. 59.
5. Luise White, The Comforts of Home: prostitution in colonial Nairobi (Chicago, 1990).
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8. Hake, op. cit. p. 93.
9. Kinuthia Macharia, ‘The State and the Informal Sector in Nairobi, Kenya’, 33rd Annual African Studies Association Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, 2 November 1990.
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12. Republic of Kenya, Sessional Paper No. I of 1986 on Economic Management for Renewed Growth (Nairobi, 1986), p. 1.
13. Kenya, Development Plan, 1989–1993 (Nairobi, 1989), p. 164.
14. Macharia, ‘The Role of Social Networks and the State in the Informal Sector’.
15. Weekly Review (Nairobi), 11 January 1991, reporting the President’s address to the nation from Muranga.
16. Weekly Review, 8 June 1990.
17. Sunday Nation and Sunday Standard (Nairobi), 2 December 1990.
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19. Legal Notice No. 89 of [1 June] 1973.
20. Weekly Review, 27 March 1992.
21. See Janice Perlman, The Myth of Marginality: urban poverty and politics in Rio de Janeiro (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1979) for a case-study in Latin America of the myth that the troublemakers are residents of shanty towns.