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Addis deals: reckoning with the informal governance of urban structural transformation

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African cities are increasingly seen as key to unlocking national structural transformation and inclusive growth, as they tend to host the majority of the non-productive and informal labour force; attract the lion's share of domestic investment in non-productive sectors; and host different political-economic relations and power configurations to those observed at the national scale.

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  • Selam Robi, 2024. "Addis deals: reckoning with the informal governance of urban structural transformation," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2024-40, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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