Informal Sector

Author : Franziska Ohnsorge,Shu Yu
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464817540

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The Long Shadow of Informality by Franziska Ohnsorge,Shu Yu Pdf

A large percentage of workers and firms operate in the informal economy, outside the line of sight of governments in emerging market and developing economies. This may hold back the recovery in these economies from the deep recessions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic--unless governments adopt a broad set of policies to address the challenges of widespread informality. This study is the first comprehensive analysis of the extent of informality and its implications for a durable economic recovery and for long-term development. It finds that pervasive informality is associated with significantly weaker economic outcomes--including lower government resources to combat recessions, lower per capita incomes, greater poverty, less financial development, and weaker investment and productivity.

Author : Sarbajit Chaudhuri,Ujjaini Mukhopadhyay
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781441911940

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Revisiting the Informal Sector by Sarbajit Chaudhuri,Ujjaini Mukhopadhyay Pdf

This book provides insight into the diverse aspects of the informal sector, its role in the context of unemployment, child labor, globalization and environment, as well as its multi-faceted interaction with the other sectors of the economy.

Author : International Monetary Fund
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781513575919

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The Global Informal Workforce by International Monetary Fund Pdf

The Global Informal Workforce is a fresh look at the informal economy around the world and its impact on the macroeconomy. The book covers interactions between the informal economy, labor and product markets, gender equality, fiscal institutions and outcomes, social protection, and financial inclusion. Informality is a widespread and persistent phenomenon that affects how fast economies can grow, develop, and provide decent economic opportunities for their populations. The COVID-19 pandemic has helped to uncover the vulnerabilities of the informal workforce.

Author : Erika Kraemer-Mbula,Sacha Wunsch-Vincent
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107157545

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The Informal Economy in Developing Nations by Erika Kraemer-Mbula,Sacha Wunsch-Vincent Pdf

This pioneering study offers a conceptual model and rich empirical evidence to help researchers and policy-makers understand informal innovation in developing countries.

Author : Ceyhun Elgin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000163810

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The Informal Economy by Ceyhun Elgin Pdf

The Informal Economy: Measures, Causes, and Consequences provides a comprehensive account of the economics of informality through the lenses of various economic perspectives. Although informal economic activity is widespread all around the world, many issues around its nature and consequences remain largely under-explored or unresolved. Most importantly, the evidence presented in the existing literature on informality has failed to generate a consensus on the measurements, causes, and effects of the informal sector among researchers. Most, if not all, of the empirical results are inconclusive or dependent on the nature of the dataset used in the analysis. This book aims to address that gap by exploring different definitions and measures of the informal economy, including different perspectives, then subjecting these measures to a battery of empirical tests to examine the determinants and effects of informality. Through this analysis and an extensive review of the literature, the book explores many of the economic, political, and social factors of the informal economy including the relationship between informality and the tax burden, tax enforcement, and institutional quality. This key text makes for compulsive reading to scholars and students interested in the informal or shadow economy.

Author : Jean-Pierre Cling,Stéphane Lagrée,Mireille Razafindrakoto,François Roubaud
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317912224

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The Informal Economy in Developing Countries by Jean-Pierre Cling,Stéphane Lagrée,Mireille Razafindrakoto,François Roubaud Pdf

Informality is ubiquitous in most developing countries. Understanding the informal economy is therefore of utmost importance from a political, economic and social point of view. Paradoxically, despite its economic importance, knowledge is extremely limited regarding the informal economy. It remains largely unrecognized by researchers, is neglected by politicians, and is even negatively perceived as it is meant to disappear with development. This book aims to amend this situation by presenting recent high level research which studies the informal sector and informal employment. Fresh research into this subject is presented through empirical analysis which covers Asia, Africa and Latin America. Each chapter relies on data and a detailed knowledge of the context of the countries studied in order to question the dominant schools of thought on the origins and causes of informality. The results provide interesting insights into the constraints faced by informal workers, the dynamics of the informal economy and its link with poverty issues. On the basis of the evidences provided by results adequate policies could be defined to address informality issues. The principal characteristics of the informal sector testify to some profound similarities between developing countries: low qualifications and the precariousness of jobs, mediocre incomes and working conditions, atomization of production units and lack of articulation with the formal economy, etc. This general statement does not contradict the observation that there is a high level of heterogeneity in the sector and in informal employment within each country, confirmed by several chapters in this work. In the absence of a sufficient number of job creations, the informal sector essentially constitutes a refuge for workers seeking and is here to stay in the short and medium term, even in emerging countries.

Author : International Monetary Fund
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781616351564

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Public Sector Debt Statistics by International Monetary Fund Pdf

The global financial crisis of recent years and the associated large fiscal deficits and debt levels that have impacted many countries underscores the importance of reliable and timely government statistics and, more broadly, public sector debt as a critical element in countries fiscal and external sustainability. Public Sector Debt Statistics is the first international guide of its kind, and its primary objectives are to improve the quality and timeliness of key debt statistics and promote a convergence of recording practices to foster international comparability and as a reference for national compilers and users for compiling and disseminating these data. Like other statistical guides published by the IMF, this one was prepared in consultation with countries and international agencies, including the nine organizations of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Finance Statistics (TFFS). The guide's preparation was based on the broad range of experience of our institutions and benefitted from consultation with national compilers of government finance and public sector debt statistics. The guide's concepts are harmonized with those of the System of National Accounts (2008) and the Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual, Sixth Edition.

Author : Andrew Henley,G. Reza Arabsheibani,Francisco Galrão Carneiro
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Empleo informal
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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On Defining and Measuring the Informal Sector by Andrew Henley,G. Reza Arabsheibani,Francisco Galrão Carneiro Pdf

"A range of alternative empirical definitions of informal activity have been employed in the literature. Choice of definition is often dictated by data availability. Different definitions may imply very different conceptual understandings of informality. In this paper the authors investigate the degree of congruence between three definitions of informality based on employment contract registration, social security protection, and the characteristics of the employer and employment using Brazilian household survey data for the period 1992 to 2001. The authors present evidence showing that 64 percent of the economically active population are informal according to at least one definition, but only 40 percent are informal according to all three. Steady compositional changes have been taking place among informal workers, conditional on definition.

Author : Gregory K. Schoepfle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Employee fringe benefits
ISBN : UIUC:30112081680172

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Work Without Protections by Gregory K. Schoepfle Pdf

Author : Jütting Johannes,de Laiglesia Juan Ramón
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264059245

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Development Centre Studies Is Informal Normal ? Towards More and Better Jobs in Developing Countries by Jütting Johannes,de Laiglesia Juan Ramón Pdf

Provides evidence for policy makers on how to deal with informal employment in developing and developed countries alike.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Employee rights
ISBN : UIUC:30112104421174

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The Informal Sector and Worker Rights by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alan Middleton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429575037

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The Informal Sector in Ecuador by Alan Middleton Pdf

This book looks back over the last forty years of change and development in Ecuador, showing how macro level changes have impacted families and workplaces on the local level. Traditionally a dependent economy reliant on agricultural exports, the impact of neoliberalism and new sources of income from oil have transformed the informal and artisanal sectors in Ecuador. Exploring these dynamics using a combination of micro and macro analyses, this book demonstrates how the social relations of the sector are connected to the wider social, economic and political systems in which they operate. The book dives into the links between micro-production and the wider economy, including the relationships between different types of artisanal enterprises and their customers, their connections to the private sector and the state, the importance of social networks and social capital and the relevance of finance capital in microenterprise development. Overall, the analysis investigates how artisans, entrepreneurs and family-based enterprises seek to protect their interests when faced with neoliberal policies and the impacts of globalisation. This remarkable longitudinal study will be of considerable interest to researchers of development studies, economics, sociology, anthropology, geography and Latin American Studies.

Author : OECD,International Labour Organization
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264613201

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Development Centre Studies Tackling Vulnerability in the Informal Economy by OECD,International Labour Organization Pdf

A majority of workers in the world are informally employed and contribute to economic and social development through market and non-market activities that are not protected, regulated, well-recognised or valued. This study provides an in-depth diagnosis of informality and the vulnerability prevailing in the informal economy. It explores new ideas to improve the lives of workers in the informal economy based on the ILO indicators of informality and the new OECD Key Indicators of Informality based on Individuals and their Household (KIIbIH).

Author : M. Estellie Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034083779

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Perspectives on the Informal Economy by M. Estellie Smith Pdf

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Author : Cathy A. Rakowski
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1994-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438416793

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Contrapunto by Cathy A. Rakowski Pdf

The informal sector denotes the small-scale, unprotected, and loosely regulated activities and self-employment that proliferate in developing countries. This book is about the people who engage in informal activities and the people who study, interpret, intervene in, promote, or attempt to repress or regulate the sector. The authors bring together and evaluate for the first time competing theories, policies, and research findings on the informal sector, dealing with issues of power, ideology, and politics; basic research, applied research, program evaluation, and policymaking; exploitation, entrepreneurship, and opportunity; and poverty and the accumulation of wealth.