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Rethinking the informal economy: linkages with the formal economy and the formal regulatory environment [PDF]
, 2006 AbstractThis paper explores the relationship of the informal economy to the formal economy and to the formal regulatory environment. It begins with a comparison of the earlier concept of the ‘informal sector’ with the new expanded concept of the ‘informal economy’, which includes microentrepreneurs, own account operators, informal wage workers, and ...
Martha Alter Chen
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Formal Female Entrepreneurship and the Shadow Economy
Journal of Economics and Behavioral Studies, 2021 Although female entrepreneurship yields products, markets, and business models that might not exist otherwise and are relevant to economic growth and development as well as issues related to gender equality, the factors that drive female entrepreneurship is largely understudied. The primary objective of this study is to examine the relationship between
Cassandra E. DiRienzo, Jayoti Das
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Informal Market in Urban Setting in India: A Sociological Review
Prizren Social Science Journal, 2021 The formal and the informal market are two significant parts of the economy in India. However, the portion of the informal sector is more when contrasted with the formal one.
Aayushi VERMA, Pawan KUMAR MISRA
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اقتصاد الظل ما بين تقنينه ومحاربته (فرصة أم تهديد): الحالة المصريـة نموذجًا [PDF]
المجلة الدولية للسياسات العامة في مصرينظر إلى اقتصاد الظل من ناحيتين؛ الأولى أنه بمثابة صمام الأمان لاستيعاب العمالة الزائدة والحد من الفقر، حيث يوفر وظائف ومصادر دخل لأعداد كبيرة من المواطنين، بما يعمل على توليد قوة شرائية مضافة داخل الاقتصاد المحلي، كما يعد من المهدئات الاجتماعية للصدمات ...
وسام عبدالوهاب
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Measuring the informal economy in South Africa
South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences, 2015 Measuring the size of the South African informal economy has received inadequate attention, making it difficult for policy-makers to assess the impact of policy measures to stimulate informal economic activity.
S Saunders, E Loots
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Cogent Economics & Finance, 2021 This paper investigates whether the size of the shadow economy increases income inequality in Uganda. This p3aper applies the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach to cointegration, to test the long- and short-run relationship ...
Stephen Esaku
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Family farmers’ reluctance toward incorporating into the formal economy
Economía Agraria y Recursos Naturales, 2019 Informal economy is particularly prevalent in small-scale farming, yet little attention has been paid to it so far. This article aims to contribute to a further understanding of this phenomenon.
Sofía Boza +3 more
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Labor Informality and Economic Political Accountability of Executive Incumbents in Latin America
Revista Latinoamericana de Opinión Pública, 2021 Many governments across Latin America have been unable to reduce stubbornly high levels of labor informality and the lack of legal and social protection put informal workers in a situation of continuous economic peril and uncertainty.
Julán Acevedo-Pardo
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PRO AND AGAINST INFORMAL ECONOMY [PDF]
Oradea Journal of Business and Economics, 2018 The informal economy is a reality that influences the lives of people directly at the planetary level.The term "informal economy" is used to include all workers and businesses in rural or urban areas working in the informal environment.
Lavinia Stan, Florica Stefanescu
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Formal-informal economy linkages [PDF]
, 2015 Commissioned by the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of Science and Technology, MarchThe persistence of high levels of unemployment, poverty and inequality are widely recognised as major socio-economic challenges for South Africa.
Altman, M.
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