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This two-volume original reference work provides a comprehensive overview of development economics and comprises contributions by some of the leading scholars working in the field. Authors are drawn from around the world and write on a wide range of topics.
José A. Scheinkman, Áureo de Paula
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Apoyos Económicos, Género y Diferencias en la Participación en el Sector Informal en México
Revista Economía y PolíticaSi bien la literatura sobre el sector informal ha explorado el vínculo entre las características sociodemográficas individuales y la participación en el sector informal, son escasos los estudios empíricos centrados en la interacción entre factores ...
Juan Carlos Hernández Briones +2 more
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Informal sector on labour market [PDF]
Revista Română de Statistică, 2011 The informal sector is omnipresent, existing in the market economies and centrally planned economies in both the developing and developed ones. The sector achieved results that run the economy and engage workers who work, earn income and consume ...
Silvia PISICĂ
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Causes of Option for Informal Sector [PDF]
Revista de Management Comparat International, 2020 Informality is a feature, specific to any economy, regardless its nature and development degree, but it has a significant share in developing or poorly developed economies.
Cristian MARINESCU, Alina BRATILOVEANU
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Improving upon the working environment of informal sector workers in Ghana: The role of planning
Cogent Medicine, 2021 : The formalization of the informal sector in Ghana can never be achieved without planning the working environment of the informal sector workers. Although studies have touched on various aspects of the informal sector working environment, no review ...
Dina Adei +4 more
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Modelling the informal sector and energy consumption in Ghana
Social Sciences and Humanities Open, 2022 The International Monetary Fund (2017) defines the informal sector as unrecorded economic activities that possess monetary value and contribute to tax revenue and gross domestic product.
John Bosco Dramani +2 more
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Global social challenges for development studies in the Crisis in the Anthropocene
Global Social Challenges Journal, 2023 This panel discussion session explores some of the central dimensions of the Crisis in the Anthropocene that constitute global social challenges in the context of development studies. The conference theme highlighted the profound human impact on our blue-
Simon David +8 more
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007 This paper investigates the determinants of informal economic activity. We present two equilibrium models of informality and test their implications using a survey of 48,000+ small firms in Brazil. We define informality as tax avoidance; firms in the informal sector avoid tax payments but suffer other limitations.
Áureo de Paula, José Scheinkman
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Journal of Energy in Southern Africa, 2021 This study explores the exclusion of informal micro-enterprises from the provision of basic urban infrastructure services in Duncan Village in East London, South Africa.
B. Masuku, O. Nzewi
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PLOS Global Public Health, 2023 Obtaining medication from the informal sector is common in low- and middle- income countries. Informal sector use increases the risk for inappropriate medication use, including inappropriate antibiotic usage.
Sanne Wildbret +6 more
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