College of Graduate Studies

Prof Kate Meagher

College of Graduate Studies
Academic Associate
E-mail:
k.meagher@Ise.ac.za

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Kate Meagher is an Associate Professor in Development Studies at the Department of International Development, London School of Economics.  She has a D.Phil in Sociology from the University of Oxford, and taught at Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria from 1991-1997.  She has published widely on various aspects of African informal economies, including cross-border trade and regional integration, informal manufacturing clusters, hybrid governance, youth unemployment, and the gig economy and the social contract.  Recent publications include Globalization, Economic Inclusion and African Workers: Making the Right Connections (Routledge, 2016, co-edited with Laura Mann and Maxim Bolt).