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Human Resources, Employment and Development Volume 5: Developing Countries pp 243–264Cite as

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The Urban Informal Sector: A Search for the Processes and Appropriate Strategies

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The dualist conception of developing economies has undergone considerable revision since the original proposition concerning the ‘urban market economy’ and the ‘rural subsistence economy’. The economy-wide ‘two-sector’ classifications have given place to finer subdivisions, especially in the urban context, since conventional wisdom seemed to be increasingly incapable of explaining certain intraurban economic processes.

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    D. N. Basu & A. K. Sundaram

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Basu, D.N., Sundaram, A.K. (1984). The Urban Informal Sector: A Search for the Processes and Appropriate Strategies. In: Amin, S. (eds) Human Resources, Employment and Development Volume 5: Developing Countries. International Economic Association Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17461-4_11

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