LSE creators

Number of items: 64.
Geography and Environment
  • Meagher, Kate (2010). The empowerment trap: gender, poverty and the informal economy in sub-Saharan Africa. In Chant, Sylvia (Ed.), The International Handbook of Gender and Poverty: Concepts, Research, Policy . Edward Elgar.
    • International Development
  • Meagher, Kate (21 October 2025) Thandika Mkandawire and the decolonization of settler colonial thinking. International Development. picture_as_pdf
  • Meagher, Kate (2025). Decolonizing development studies rejecting or repurposing the master’s tools? The European Journal of Development Research, 37(2), 407 - 420. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-024-00686-1 picture_as_pdf
  • Meagher, Kate (29 October 2024) Does the Nobel Prize in Economics 2024 signal a reversal of fortunes for settler colonialism? International Development. picture_as_pdf
  • Meagher, Kate (3 May 2024) Protest in a time of monsters: media coverage of the London ceasefire marches. International Development. picture_as_pdf
  • Meagher, Kate (2024). Unlocking the informal economy: a literature review on linkages between formal and informal economies in developing countries. (WIEGO Working Papers 27). Women in Informal Employment Globalizing and Organizing.
  • Meagher, Kate (20 December 2023) Red lines and real choices: media perspectives and the recent London ceasefire marches. International Development. picture_as_pdf
  • Meagher, Kate (9 November 2023) Protest, propaganda and politics: media coverage of the London ceasefire marches. International Development. picture_as_pdf
  • Meagher, Kate (19 May 2023) African paradox or poor numbers? Informality, COVID-19, and the decolonization of statistics. International Development. picture_as_pdf
  • Meagher, Kate (11 May 2023) Africa's COVID-19 statistics highlight bias in excess death modelling. Impact of Social Sciences Blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Atela, Martin, Meagher, Kate, Awortwi, Nicholas (2022). Introduction and overview. In Atela, Martin, Mustapha, Abdul Raufu (Eds.), Political Settlements and Agricultural Transformation in Africa: Evidence for Inclusive Growth . Routledge.
  • Meagher, Kate (2022). Crisis narratives and the African paradox: African informal economies, COVID-19 and the decolonization of social policy. Development and Change, 53(6), 1200 - 1229. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12737 picture_as_pdf
  • Meagher, Kate (2022). Rewiring the social contract: economic inclusion and the gig economy in Nigeria. In Hujo, Katja, Carter, Maggie (Eds.), Between Fault Lines and Front Lines: Shifting Power in an Unequal World (pp. 80 - 97). Bloomsbury Academic.
  • Meagher, Kate (2021). Smuggling ideologies: theory and reality in African clandestine economies. In Gallien, Max, Weigand, Florian (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Smuggling (pp. 30 - 44). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003043645-3 picture_as_pdf
  • Meagher, Kate (14 October 2021) Collateral damage: West African shockwaves from the fall of Afghanistan. International Development. picture_as_pdf
  • Meagher, Kate (2021). Informality and the infrastructures of inclusion: an introduction. Development and Change, 52(4), 729-755. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12672
  • Meagher, Kate (2021). A transformative economist: remembering Thandika Mkandawire. CODESRIA Bulletin, (02-03), 9 - 13. https://doi.org/10.57054/cb02-032020190
  • Meagher, Kate (2021). Introduction the politics of Open Access — decolonizing research or corporate capture? Development and Change, 52(2), 340 - 358. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12630 picture_as_pdf
  • Meagher, Kate, Hassan, Ibrahim Haruna (2020). Informalization & its discontents: the informal economy & Islamic radicalization in northern Nigeria. In Mustapha, Abdul Raufu, Meagher, Kate (Eds.), Overcoming Boko Haram: Faith, Society & Islamic Radicalization in Northern Nigeria (pp. 244 - 274). James Currey (Firm).
  • Mustapha, Abdul Raufu, Meagher, Kate (Eds.) (2020). Overcoming Boko Haram: faith, society and Islamic radicalization in northern Nigeria. James Currey (Firm). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781787446595
  • Meagher, Kate (2020). Illusions of inclusion: assessment of the World Development Report 2019 on the changing nature of work. Development and Change, 51(2), 667 - 682. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12557 picture_as_pdf
  • Meagher, Kate (2019). Working in chains: African informal workers and global value chains. Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, 8(1-2), 64-92. https://doi.org/10.1177/2277976019848567 picture_as_pdf
  • Meagher, Kate (2019). Reflections of an engaged economist: an interview with Thandika Mkandawire. Development and Change, 50(2), 511-541. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12481 description
  • Meagher, Kate (30 November 2018) Making inclusion more inclusive. Urban Age.
  • Meagher, Kate (2018). Taxing times: taxation, divided societies and the informal economy in Northern Nigeria. The Journal of Development Studies, 54(1), 1 - 17. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2016.1262026 picture_as_pdf
  • Meagher, Kate (2018). Cannibalizing the informal economy: frugal innovation and economic inclusion in Africa. European Journal of Development Research, 30(1), 17-33. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-017-0113-4
  • Meagher, Kate, Mann, Laura, Bolt, Maxim (Eds.) (2016). Globalization, economic inclusion and African workers: making the right connections. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315436494
  • Meagher, Kate (2016). Gambling with demography: investor confidence and Islamic values in Nigeria.
  • Meagher, Kate (9 November 2016) Capitalist redux: the scramble for Africa’s workers. Review of African Political Economy.
  • Mann, Laura, Meagher, Kate (2016). The needs of informal workers matter in digital innovation.
  • Meagher, Kate (2016). The scramble for Africans: demography, globalisation and Africa’s informal labour markets. The Journal of Development Studies, 52(4), 483 - 497. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2015.1126253
  • Meagher, Kate, Manna, Laura, Bolt, Maxim (2016). Introduction: globalization, African workers and the terms of inclusion. The Journal of Development Studies, 52(4), 471-482. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2015.1126256
  • Meagher, Kate (2015). Leaving no-one behind? Informal economies, economic inclusion, and Islamic extremism in Nigeria. Journal of International Development, 27(6), 835-855. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3117
  • Meagher, Kate (2014). Beyond terror: addressing the Boko Haram challenge in Nigeria. (NOREF Policy Brief). Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre (NOREF).
  • Meagher, Kate (2014). Disempowerment from below: informal enterprise networks and the limits of political voice in Nigeria. Oxford Development Studies, 42(3), 419-438. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600818.2014.900005
  • Meagher, Kate (22 May 2014) MINTs and mayhem: in Nigeria the risks are the only thing that trickle down. African Arguments.
  • Meagher, Kate (26 March 2014) Dividend or disaster: youth unemployment in Africa. The Broker.
  • Meagher, Kate (2014). Smuggling ideologies: from criminalization to hybrid governance in African clandestine economies. African Affairs, 113(453), 497-517. https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adu057
  • Meagher, Kate, de Herdt, Tom, Titeca, Kristof (2014). Unravelling public authority: paths of hybrid governance in Africa. (Human Secuity and Fragile States Research Briefs 10). Wageningen Universiteit.
  • Meagher, Kate (2013). Informality, religious conflict, and governance in northern Nigeria: economic inclusion in divided societies. African Studies Review, 56(3), 209-234. https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2013.86
  • Meagher, Kate (2013). The jobs crisis behind Nigeria's unrest. Current History, 112(754), 169-174.
  • Meagher, Kate (2012). The strength of weak states? Non-state security forces and hybrid governance in Africa. Development and Change, 43(5), 1073-1101. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7660.2012.01794.x
  • Meagher, Kate (2012). Weber meets Godzilla: social networks and the spirit of capitalism in East Asia and Africa. Review of African Political Economy, 39(132), 261-278. https://doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2012.688804
  • Meagher, Kate (2011-06-15 - 2011-06-18) Disempowerment from below: informal enterprise and the limits of popular governance in Nigeria [Paper]. 4th European Conference on African Studies, Uppsala, Sweden, SWE.
  • Meagher, Kate (2011). Informal economies and urban governance in Nigeria popular empowerment or political exclusion? African Studies Review, 54(2), 47-72. https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2011.0026
  • Meagher, Kate (2010). Social capital or social exclusion: social networks and informal manufacturing in Nigeria. In Bryceson, D. (Ed.), How Africa Works: Occupational Change, Identity and Morality . Practical Action (Organization).
  • Meagher, Kate (2010). Identity economics: social networks and the informal economy in Nigeria. James Currey (Firm).
  • Meagher, Kate (2010). Networking for success: informal enterprise and popular associations in Nigeria. In Harriss-White, Barbara, Heyer, Judith (Eds.), The Comparative Political Economy of Development: Africa and South Asia (pp. 158-178). Routledge. picture_as_pdf
  • Meagher, Kate (2010-07-09 - 2010-07-10) Weber meets Godzilla: social networks and the spirit of capitalism [Other]. Celebrating Gavin Williams, Oxford, United Kingdom, GBR.
  • Meagher, Kate (2010). The empowerment trap: gender, poverty and the informal economy in sub-Saharan Africa. In Chant, Sylvia (Ed.), The International Handbook of Gender and Poverty: Concepts, Research, Policy . Edward Elgar.
  • Meagher, Kate (2010). The politics of vulnerability: exit, voice and capture in three Nigerian informal manufacturing clusters. In Lindell, Ilda (Ed.), Africa’s Informal Workers: Collective Agency, Alliances and Transnational Organizing . Zed Books.
  • Meagher, Kate (2010). The tangled web of associational life: urban governance and the politics of popular livelihoods in Nigeria. Urban Forum, 21(3), 299-313. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12132-010-9089-2
  • Meagher, Kate (2009). Culture agency and power: theoretical reflections on informal economic networks and political process. (DIIS Working Papers 2009:27). Danish Institute for International Studies.
  • Okonta, Ike, Meagher, Kate (2009). Legacies of Biafra: violence, identity and citizenship in Nigeria - introduction. Africa Development, 34(1), 1-8.
  • Meagher, Kate (2009). Trading on faith: religious movements and informal economic governance in Nigeria. Journal of Modern African Studies, 47(3), 397-423. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X0900398X
  • Meagher, Kate (2009). The informalization of belonging: Igbo informal enterprise and national cohesion from below. Africa Development, 34(1), 31-46.
  • Meagher, Kate (2008). Beyond the shadows: informal institutions and development in Africa - introduction. Afrika Spectrum, 43(1).
  • Meagher, Kate (2007). Hijacking civil society: the inside story of the Bakassi Boys vigilante group of south-eastern Nigeria. Journal of Modern African Studies, 45(1), 89-115. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X06002291
  • Meagher, Kate (2007). Manufacturing disorder: liberalization, informal enterprise and economic ‘ungovernance’ in African small firm clusters. Development and Change, 38(3), 473-503. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7660.2007.00420.x
  • Meagher, Kate (2006). Cultural primordialism and the post-structuralist imaginaire plus ça change [review article]. Africa: the Journal of the International African Institute, 76(4), 590-597. https://doi.org/10.3366/afr.2006.0071
  • Meagher, Kate (2006). Social capital, social liabilities, and political capital: social networks and informal manufacturing in Nigeria. African Affairs, 105(421), 553-582. https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adi123
  • Meagher, Kate (2005). Social capital or analytical liability? Social networks and African informal economies. Global Networks, 5(3), 217-238. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-0374.2005.00116.x
  • Meagher, Kate (2003). A back door to globalisation? Structural adjustment, globalisation & transborder trade in West Africa. Review of African Political Economy, 30(95), 57-75. https://doi.org/10.1080/03056240308374
  • Meagher, Kate (2001). The invasion of the opportunity snatchers: the rural-urban interface in northern Nigeria. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 19(1), 39-54.
    • LSE
  • Meagher, Kate (2014). Living with Ebola: initiatives from below.