The Informal economy

    Julia Elyachar describes the ultimate effect of the efforts of the World Bank, Egyptian State, and other interests to financialize the informal economy of Cairo through their promotion of the market to be the dispossession of urban poor craftsmen and enterprising youth. Of what were the tradesmen and young entrepreneurs who participated in the Egyptian Social Fund programs in el-Hirafiyeen dispossessed, and how did this dispossession operate?