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CONSIDERATIONS ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF INFORMAL ECONOMY IN THE EUROPEAN UNION [PDF]

open access: yesFinancial Studies, 2016
Informal economy is a ubiquitous element in both developed and emerging states. Given the complex nature of the concept and the multitude of forms in which it can be found, modeling informal economy became an important focus in the specific ...
Teodora MIHĂILĂ
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INFORMAL ECONOMY AS AN EXPRESSION OF THE STATE FAILURE

open access: yesEkonomia i Prawo, 2010
The article deals with the phenomenon of second economy, underground or subterranean economy, unofficial economy, unrecorded economy, informal economy, cash economy etc., which has been assessed here as a function of a given mix of economic policies ...
Agata Kubiczek
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Risk attitudes and informal employment in a developing economy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
© 2012 Bennett et al.; licensee Springer. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0),which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction ...
AK Basu   +14 more
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Informality and migrant entrepreneurs in Cape Town’s inner city

open access: yesBulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series, 2018
Informality is a defining characteristic of cities in the global South and most especially across the region of sub-Saharan Africa. Policy responses by governments towards the informal economy impact the livelihoods of informal entrepreneurs.
Rogerson Christian M.
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The Role of the Informal Economy in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in Europe [PDF]

open access: yesAmfiteatru Economic
This study investigated the relationship between the informal economy and sustainable development, focussing on how the shadow economy influenced the achievement of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) formulated in the 2030 Agenda in Europe ...
Roberto Dell’Anno   +2 more
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Informal Economy, Governance, and Corruption [PDF]

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The nature of activity of the informal sector may vary across the developed and developing countries, yet it is evident that the sector contributes to economic growth anywhere in the world, regardless of a country's economic system.
Chowdhury, Hedayet Ullah
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Informal economy and environmental degradation in developing countries: the conditioning role of institutional quality

open access: yesFrontiers in Environmental Science
Environmental degradation, particularly through rising carbon dioxide (CO2) and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, is a pressing challenge for developing countries where large informal economies often escape regulatory oversight. This study investigates the
Chengyu Si   +8 more
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Tax rates, governance, and the informal economy in high-income countries [PDF]

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This paper studies the mechanisms behind the informal economy in high-income countries. About 16.3% of output in high-income OECD countries was produced informally in 2001-02. In a recent paper Davis and Henrekson [2004] show that there exists a positive
Zoe Kuehn
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No. 74: Informal Entrepreneurship and Cross-Border Trade between Zimbabwe and South Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Informal cross-border trading in Zimbabwe has become more than a survivalist strategy and should be seen as an important pillar of the country\u27s economy. This report, part of SAMP’s Growing Informal Cities series, seeks to provide a current picture of
Chikanda, Abel, Tawodzera, Godfrey
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Tackling the Urban Informal Economy: Some Lessons from a Study of Europe’s Urban Population

open access: yesTransylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences, 2017
The aim of this paper is to evaluate themost effective way of tackling the urban informaleconomy. It has been recently argued that theconventional rational economic actor approach(which increases the costs of participating in theurban informal economy so
Colin C. WILLIAMS, Ioana A. HORODNIC
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