Informal Sector Innovations:Insights from the Global South

Ever since the 'discovery' of informal sector by Keith Hart in the 1970s while studying rural migrants from northern Ghana, this sector has gained prodigious attention from academics and policymakers. Studies on the informal sector were largely confined to labour, wage, unemployment and poverty issues. Despite some studies and hotly contested debates, the knowledge potential of this sector was seldom recognized. It is only recently that this sector is viewed as a reservoir of knowledge and innovative activities.