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Is informality a barrier to economic growth in Uganda? Empirical analysis
Development Studies Research, 2021 We apply autoregressive distributed lag modeling approach to investigate the short- and long-run relationship between economic growth and informality in Uganda. We use annual time series data, covering the period from 1991 to 2017.
Stephen Esaku
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Unveiling the intellectual structure of informality: Insights from the socioeconomic literature. [PDF]
PLoS ONEIn the socioeconomic sphere, the concept of informality has been used to address issues pertaining to economic dynamics, institutions, work, poverty, settlements, the use of space, development, and sustainability, among others.
Nelson Alfonso Gómez-Cruz +2 more
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Informal employment, population health, and welfare policies: A global empirical analysis between 2011-2021. [PDF]
PLoS ONEDespite informal employment being the most common type of employment globally, the empirical link between informality and health is underexplored.
Amanda E Aronsson, Indra de Soysa
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Nippon Ronen Igakkai Zasshi. Japanese Journal of Geriatrics, 2022 SI KOT (SICOT - Societe Internationale de Chirurgie Orthopedique et de Traumatologic) The largest international society of orthopedics and traumatology, founded in October 1929 in Paris, currently unites more than 2500 specialists from 81 countries. As stated in the Charter of the society, SICOT sees its goal in its work in orthopedics and traumatology,
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Social Science Research Network, 2021 This paper introduces a comprehensive database of informal economic activity. The database focuses on measures that have strong cross-country and over time coverage: it includes both model-based and survey-based measures of informality and covers more ...
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Why do Firms Operate Informally? Insights from a Systematic Literature Review
Innovar: Revista de Ciencias Administrativas y Sociales, 2022 This paper investigates factors that motivate entrepreneurs to completely operate within informality and the drivers of formal companies to underreport revenues.
Florencia Verónica Pedroni +2 more
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Smart city planning and the challenges of informality in India
Dialogues in Human Geography, 2023 Smart city initiatives are mushrooming across the Global South, yet their implications for urban informality – a distinct challenge of planning in the cities of the Global South – remain overlooked.
Deepti Prasad, T. Alizadeh, R. Dowling
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City in Africa I: Urbanism and informality
Journal of Urban Affairs, 2023 The complexity of urbanism is highly context-dependent and contrasts considerably across cities and countries. Despite the emerging body of literature on African urbanism (e.g., Dodman et al., 2017; Cardoso, 2016; Van Noorloos & Kloosterboer, 2018), its ...
P. Cobbinah
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Societies, 2022 This paper develops a baseline and definition for informal disaster diplomacy in order to fill in an identified gap in the existing research. The process adopted is a review of the concept of informality, the application of informality to diplomacy, and ...
Patrizia I. Duda, Ilan Kelman
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Informalidad, productividad y flexibilidad laboral
Revista de Análisis Económico y Financiero, 2020 This document studies the relationship of labor informality with productivity and labor flexibility using data by country. It is shown that labor flexibility and productivity are negatively related to labor informality, which suggests that when labor ...
Nikita Cespedes Reynaga
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