Construção do espaço do comércio informal na cidade de Maputo a partir das mobilidades populacionais

Abstract

The informal sector in the city of Maputo, its emergence followed a certain logic determined by a series of factors whose analysis was carried out using an integrated analysis of factors according to various research methodologies applied in the field of economic geography. This analysis shows that the informal sector in Maputo city was originated by the following factors: Flow of people to the city in search of better living conditions, lack of employment by the majority of its constituents, an alternative for survival/poverty. increase in family income and form of accumulation. These factors. the search for better conditions by populations coming from the countryside, or from other provinces, unemployment and the situation of extreme poverty in which the majority of the Mozambican population lives, are those that have contributed the most to development. informal sector. Currently, the informal sector has reached a level that is far from its traditional forms, becoming, in addition to an alternative for survival, a business. which, in addition to generating profits, absorbs a considerable amount of labor. In addition to the advantages it presents to populations, especially the most disadvantaged, the informal sector in the city of Maputo, as it is not structured, brings with it a series of problems related to the disorderly occupation of spaces designed for other purposes, such as environmental sanitation. and other problems that disturb the normal environment of a city.(TRADUÇÁO NOSSA)