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Authored Books

Rizzo, Matteo (2017) Taken For A Ride: Grounding Neoliberalism, Precarious Labour, and Public Transport in an African Metropolis. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Critical Frontiers of Theory, Research, and Policy in International Development Studies)

Weeks, John, Andersson, David, Cramer, Christopher, Geda, Alemayehu, Hailu, Degol, Muhereza, Frank, Rizzo, Matteo, Ronge, Eric and Stein, Howard (2002) Supporting Ownership: Swedish Development Cooperation with Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Volume 1: Synthesis Report. Sweden: Sida.

Weeks, John, Andersson, David, Cramer, Christopher, Geda, Alemayehu, Hailu, Degol, Muhereza, Frank, Rizzo, Matteo, Ronge, Eric and Stein, Howard (2002) Supporting Ownership: Swedish Development Cooperation with Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Volume 2: Country Studies. Sweden: Sida. (Sida Evaluation 02/33:1)

Book Chapters

Rizzo, Matteo (2022) 'The Groundnut Scheme and Colonial Development in Tanganyika.' In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Rizzo, Matteo (2018) 'Neoliberalizing Infrastructure and Its Discontents: The Bus Rapid Transit Project in Dar es Salaam.' In: Enright, Theresa and Rossi, Ugo, (eds.), The Urban Political: Ambivalent Spaces of Late Neoliberalism. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 103-121.

Rizzo, Matteo and Petit, Nicolas (2015) 'The policy neglect of rural wage employment: The cases of Rwanda and Ethiopia.' In: Oya, Carlos and Pontara, Nicola, (eds.), Rural wage employment in developing countries: Theory, evidence, and policy. Abingdon; New York: Routledge. (Routledge ISS Studies in Rural Livelihoods)

Rizzo, Matteo (2013) 'The Privatization and Deregulation of the Public Transport System, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1983-2010: Outcomes and Dilemmas.' In: Chanie, P. and Mihyo, P. B., (eds.), Thirty Years of Public Sector Reforms in Africa: Selected Country Experiences. Uganda: Fountain Publishers.

Journal Article

Rizzo, Matteo and Atzeni, Maurizio (2020) 'Workers’ Power in Resisting Precarity: Comparing Transport Workers in Buenos Aires and Dar es Salaam.' Work, Employment and Society, 34 (6). pp. 1114-1130.

Johnston, Deborah, Deane, Kevin and Rizzo, Matteo (2015) 'The political economy of HIV.' Review of African Political Economy, 42 (14). pp. 335-341.

Rizzo, Matteo (2014) 'The Political Economy of an Urban Megaproject: the Bus Rapid Transit Project in Tanzania.' African Affairs, 114 (455). pp. 249-270.

Rizzo, Matteo, Kilama, Blandina and Wuyts, Marc (2014) 'The Invisibility of Wage Employment in Statistics on the Informal Economy in Africa: Causes and Consequences.' Journal of Development Studies, 51 (2). pp. 149-161.

Rizzo, Matteo (2014) 'Can Workers in the Informal Economy Organise for Labour Rights? Evidence from Tanzania’s Transport Workers.' CDPR Development Viewpoint (76).

Cotula, Lorenzo, Oya, Carlos, Codjoe, Emmanuel Ashiedu, Eid, Abdurehman, Kakraba-Ampeh, Mark, Keeley, James, Lokaley Kidewa, Admasu, Makwarimba, Melissa, Michago Seide, Wondwosen, Ole Nasha, William, Owusu Asare, Richard and Rizzo, Matteo (2014) 'Testing Claims about Large Land Deals in Africa: Findings from a Multi-Country Study.' Journal of Development Studies, 50 (7). pp. 903-925.

Rizzo, Matteo (2014) 'A response to Gundula Fischer's comment.' Review of African Political Economy, 41 (140). pp. 311-315.

Rizzo, Matteo (2013) 'Informalisation and the end of trade unionism as we knew it? Dissenting remarks from a Tanzanian case study.' Review of African Political Economy, 40 (136). pp. 290-308.

Rizzo, Matteo (2011) 'The Struggles of Informal Transport Workers in Tanzania: Debunking the Myth of Micro Solutions.' CDPR Development Viewpoint, 68.

Rizzo, Matteo (2011) '"Life is War"! Informal Transport Workers and Neoliberalism in Tanzania, 1998-2009.' Development and Change, 42 (5). pp. 179-206.

Rizzo, Matteo (2009) 'Becoming wealthy: the life-history of a rural entrepreneur in Tanzania 1922-1980s.' Journal of Eastern African Studies, 3 (2). pp. 221-239.

Rizzo, Matteo (2009) 'The struggle for alternatives: NGOs’ responses to the 2008 World Development Report.' Journal of Agrarian Change, 9 (2). pp. 277-290.

Rizzo, Matteo (2006) 'What was left of the groundnut scheme: Development Disaster and Labour Market in Southern Tanganyika 1946-1952.' Journal of Agrarian Change, 6 (2). pp. 205-238.

Rizzo, Matteo (2002) 'Being taken for a ride: Privatisation of the Dar es Salaam transport system 1983-1998.' Journal of Modern African Studies, 40 (1). pp. 133-157.

Rizzo, Matteo (2000) 'Gli operatori del trasporto informale a Dar es Salaam (Informal transport operators in Dar es Salaam).' Afriche e Orienti, 4. pp. 53-67.

Monographs and Working Papers

Rizzo, Matteo (2011) Addressing inequality in rural labour markets: A review of current policy neglect in Ethiopia and Rwanda and a framework to begin to address it. Geneva: International Labour Organization. Policy Integration Working Paper, no. 103.

Book Reviews

Rizzo, Matteo (2010) 'Book review of "La Vía Campesina: Globalization and the Power of Peasants" by Annette Aurélie Desmarais.' Journal of Peasant Studies, 37 (3).