Informal Economy in Algeria, Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco

Article by The Folders of Assafir Al-Arabi

The following 14 texts seek to answer the question “what does this system produce?”, while discussing all the ramifications of the informal economy in the region at the levels of urbanism, politics and violence, in addition to the economic level.

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