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Explaining and tackling the informal economy: an evaluation of competing perspectives

Williams, Colin C. - In: Open economics 2 (2019) 1, pp. 63-75

This paper provides an evidence-based evaluation of the competing ways of explaining and tackling the informal economy. Conventionally, participants have been viewed as rational economic actors who engage in the informal economy when the benefits outweigh the costs, and thus participation is...

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Globalization and inequality in Latin America

Carneiro, Rafael Dix; Kovak, Brian K. - 2023

We survey the recent literature studying the effects of globalization on inequality in Latin America. Our focus is on … dimensions of inequality, and developing new methodologies to capture the many facets of globalization's relationship to … that focus on distinct aspects of globalization's relationship to inequality. …

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Informal labor regulations, firm boundaries, and global sourcing

Bansal, Renu; Maiti, Dibyendu - 2024

This paper extends the global sourcing model with informal labor, which spawns reputation and legal costs for violating the rules and regulations imposed on foreign firms regarding accessing informal labor under integration. Under these circumstances, foreign firms, facing a higher cost than...

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Taxation of the informal sector and economic development of Lagos State

Adisa, Riliwan Ayinde; Ogunsuji, Olabode James; … - In: Accounting and taxation review : A&TR 3 (2019) 4, pp. 110-118

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Extending pension coverage to the informal sector in Africa

Guven, Melis - Weltbank - 2019

The coverage of pension systems in the Africa region is limited to the small segment of the population in the formal …

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The long- and short-run relationship between the shadow economy and trade openness in Uganda

Esaku, Stephen - In: Cogent economics & finance 9 (2021) 1, pp. 1-19

This paper examines the relationship between the shadow economy and trade openness in Uganda, using autoregressive distributed lag bounds testing approach. We find that the shadow economy and trade openness have a long- and short-run relationship. These results hold even when alternative...

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Asymmetric analysis of causal relations in the informality-globalisation nexus in Africa

Bolarinwa, Segun Thompson; Simatele, Munacinga - In: Economies : open access journal 12 (2024) 7, pp. 1-23

This study examines the causal relationship between informality and globalisation in 30 African countries. It deviates from traditional research by adopting a bi-directional framework to address reverse causality. By applying the DH causality method in both linear and nonlinear frameworks, this...

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Holzwirtschaft und wirtschaftliche Entwicklung in Europa im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert : eine Einführung

Bemmann, Martin - 2024

process. Second, the introduction reveals material and ecological barriers to globalization that come into view if one …

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Economic globalisation, institutions and environmental quality in Sub-Saharan Africa

Yameogo, Claire E. W.; Omojolaibi, Joseph Ayoola; … - In: Research in globalization 3 (2021), pp. 1-9

institutions as the determinant of this relationship for Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The study deploys the technique of generalised …

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Effect of economic growth on CO2 emission in Africa : do financial development and globalization matter?

Teklie, Derese Kebede; Yağmur, Mete Han - In: International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy : IJEEP 14 (2024) 1, pp. 121-140

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