Description
Governmental and non-governmental actors in many African countries have been introducing the idea of the informal economy as a space for entrepreneurship. Are people with informal livelihoods accepting of this neoliberal economic subjectivity? What does entrepreneurship mean to them? Is this framework shifting responsibility from the government to provide the conditions for decent work and extending social protection to the informal sector to individuals with informal and often precarious income-generating activities? This paper seeks to answer these questions and explain why the Zambian government have been attempting to introduce the entrepreneurship framework into the informal economy context looking at the historical and contemporary economic and political developments in the country. It is based on extensive of qualitative data collected in Lusaka and Kitwe in 2023-2024.
