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Decentralization, Corruption, and the Unofficial Economy [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007 We analyze the implications of decentralization for the incentives of local governments to provide productivity enhancing local public goods and extort bribes from local entrepreneurs. We show that an increase in the share of locally raised tax revenue left with the local government raises its incentives to provide public goods and brings more ...
Michael Alexeev, Luba Habodaszova
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Вестник Пермского университета: Серия Экономика, 2023 Introduction. Combating tax evasion, the shadow economy and unofficial (illegal) employment are important policy goals in every region. Achieving those goals requires various resources; therefore, it is important to determine the size of the shadow ...
Aleksey V. Polovyan, Karina I. Sinitsyna
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Historia Agraria de América Latina, 2022 In the aftermath of the 1883 Chilean military defeat of Mapuche forces, government officials did not prepare a socioeconomic plan to incorporate the native population into the nation.
Romina Green
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Causes of the Unofficial Economy in New Eu Member States [PDF]
Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja, 2013 The aim of the paper is to test the impact of various potential causes of unofficial economy in new member states (NMS). The hypothesis of the paper is that the most significant factors in NMS are the tax burden and the overall institutional environment.
Mikulić, Davor +1 more
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The Unofficial Economy in Africa
, 2011 We examine the productivity of informal firms (those that are not registered with the government) in 24 African countries using field work and World Bank firm level data. We find that productivity jumps sharply if we compare small formal firms to informal firms, and rises rapidly with the size of formal firms.
Rafael La Porta, Andrei Shleifer
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Asymmetric Effects of Exchange Rate Shocks on Urban Household Health Expenditures in Iran [PDF]
Rāhburdhā-yi Mudīriyyat dar Niẓām-i Salāmat, 2023 Background: The evidence of Iran's economy shows that many economic variables, including household health expenditures, can be affected by exchange rate shocks.
Reza Hashemi Shiri +3 more
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Journal of Economic Structures, 2022 Given the high fluctuations of the general price level, the importance of investment, and accessing sufficient financial resources, we examine the effects of monetary policy on the nominal (Inflation) and real (Investment) sectors of a developing economy,
Abdorasoul Sadeghi +4 more
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UNOFFICIAL ECONOMY IN CROATIA AND THE IMPACT OF THE ECONOMIC RECESSION ON THE UNOFFICIAL ECONOMY [PDF]
9th International Conference Challenges of Europe "Challenges of Europe: growth and competitiveness - reversing the trends" : Conference proceedings, 2011 According to the Eurostat’s recommendations, GDP of each country must be as exhaustive as possible. Hence, all EU member states and candidate countries have a strict obligation to include the estimate of the unofficial economy (UE) in official GDP data.
Lovrinčević, Željko +2 more
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An Assessment of Underground Economy and Turkey
Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 2014 In developed countries and in developing countries, we called as concept of underground economy which an unofficial state economic structure, greatly extended over time and become a sector and perhaps a separate economy.
Cuma BOZKURT
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The Unofficial Economy in Croatia : Causes, Size and Consequences [PDF]
Occasional paper series, 1997 In all economies, there is a part which is not included in the official economy, in other words, economic activities not included in the official statistics. The size of the unofficial economy in the Republic of Croatia was probably at least 25% of GDP in 1995. Two periods can be clearly distinguished between 1990 and 1996.
Ivo Bicanic, Katarina Ott
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