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Reform, informal sector, and extortion [PDF]

Economics & Politics, 2017
AbstractInformal economy involving unrecorded, unregistered, extra‐legal activities employs majority of the work force in the developing world. Such extra‐legal existence of informal production is facilitated through extortion by agents of political forces in power. Also, extortion activities themselves constitute an informal segment.
Biswajit Mandal, Sugata Marjit, Hamid Beladi   +2 more
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A Theory of the Informal Sector [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2002
In many countries, especially poor countries, a heavy burden of taxes, fees, bureaucratic hassles, and bribes drives many producers into an informal sector. This paper shows that we can attribute the existence of a large informal sector to the fact that, because productive endowments contain important unobservable components, the state cannot adjust ...
Yoshiaki Azuma, Herschel I. Grossman
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Sector informal y propagación de las modernizaciones domésticas en el noreste del Brasil

Espacio y Desarrollo, 1990
El artículo no presenta resumen.
Nilson Crocia de Barros
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Employment in the Informal Sector of the Economy [PDF]

Ovidius University Annals: Economic Sciences Series, 2019
In this paper we aim to present some aspects regarding employment in the informal sector of the economy as well as the main aspects that distinguish the informal sector of the economy from the formal sector. We will refer to the structure of the informal
Cristian Marinescu, Ileana Mircioi (Vălimăreanu)   +1 more
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The Impact of Economic Factors on the Employment Rate in the Informal Sector: Regional Aspect [PDF]

Prostranstvennaâ Èkonomika, 2018
The article attempts to estimate the impact of economic factors on the employment rate in the informal sector among Russian federal subjects based on the dynamic model. To make calculations the authors used panel data on federal subjects.
Natalia Leonidovna Simutina, Nikolay Nikolaevich Leventov, Olga Petrovna Puzikova   +2 more
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An empirical study into the informal sector: The link between entrepreneurial activity and firm performance

Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences, 2021
Orientation: Within an emerging market context, the informal sector’s role was deemed critical towards achieving ideals of a developmental state. Given this perceived importance, there was a need to continually study informal sector entrepreneurial ...
Tinashe Napwanya, Willie T. Chinyamurindi   +1 more
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Examining Social Insurance Perceptions and Attitudes among Zimbabwean Informal Sector Workers: A Study on Providing Social Protection to the Disenfranchised

TIJAB (The International Journal of Applied Business)
Background: Given the rate at which the labour force in Zimbabwe's informal sector continues to evolve, steps need to be taken to promote a culture where employees contribute towards their social insurance.
Bronson Mutanda, Bomi Cyril Nomlala
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Is Informal Sector Employment Marginal to Formal Sector Growth? [PDF]

The Pakistan Development Review, 2012
Pakistan has adopted a neoliberal regime to open the economy to global competition and reduce the role of the state. This directional change brought increased flow of overseas remittances, speculative investment, and consumerism. Consequently, the economy in mid-2000s grew but commodity-producing sector contracted. Public sector
Nadia Tahir, Pervez Tahir
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Informal sector

, 2018
Economy
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A Conceptual Review of the Challenges of Effective Tax Collection from the Informal Sector in Kano, Nigeria

Journal of Business Management and Accounting, 2019
The informal sector is often referred to as unregulated financial undertakings and poses a serious challenge to government in relation to tax revenue collection.
Usman Sani Kofar Wambai, Chek Derashid, Idawati Ibrahim   +2 more
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