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How important are management practices for the productivity of small and medium enterprises?

Demenet, Axel; Hoang, Quynh - 2018

Is the lack of "managerial capital", alongside human and financial capital, a constraint on the growth of firms in developing countries? The evidence on this is still mixed, especially among small and medium enterprises. This paper uses a panel of Vietnamese small and medium enterprises to...

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Competencia de la economía sumergida: ¿puestos de trabajo en peligro?

Zahir, Hadibi; Musette, Mohamed Saïb - In: Atlantic Review of Economics (ARoEc) 1 (2018) 2

A review of the mode of regulation of the labor market regulation is expected according to the new "labor law" - in circulation for some time. The debate remains open as to the "illegalization" of informal job or the "formalization" of the informal economy. Informal employment (not affiliated...

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Understanding informality

Elgin, Ceyhun; Kose, M. Ayhan; Ohnsorge, Franziska; Yu, Shu - 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 than 160 economies for the period 1990-2018....

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Growing apart or moving together? Synchronization of informal and formal economy cycles

Elgin, Ceyhun; Kose, M. Ayhan; Ohnsorge, Franziska; Yu, Shu - 2021

We study the degree of synchronization between formal- and informal-economy business cycles. Using a comprehensive database of informal activity that covers a wide range of informality measures from almost 160 countries over the 1990-2018 period, we report two major results. First, fluctuations...

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Exploring legal and political-institutional determinants of the informal economy of Pakistan

Hayat, Rizwana; Rashid, Abdul - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 8 (2020) 1, pp. 1-18

In this paper, the size of the informal economy of Pakistan is determined by including the legal and political-institutional variables as determinants. By using the MIMIC model average estimate for the informal economy of Pakistan is 37.75 percent from 1995 to 2017. The study tries to explore...

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Entrepreneurship in the Shadows: Wealth Constraints and Government Policy

Tumen, Semih - 2016

I develop a dynamic model of forward-looking entrepreneurs, who decide whether to operate in the formal economy or informal economy and choose how much to invest in their businesses, taking government policy as given. The government has access to two policy tools: taxes on formal business...

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From local to global and informal to formal: Entering mainstream markets

Nanavaty, Reema - 2005

This is a brief sketch of the Self Employed Women’s Association’s (SEWA) threedecade- long journey from the local to global and informal to formal sector in search of finding work and income for now 720,000 women workers. Though SEWA remains a local and an informal economy workers’...

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Explaining and tackling the shadow economy in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania: a tax morale approach

Williams, Colin C.; Horodnic, Ioana A. - In: Baltic Journal of Economics 15 (2015) 2, pp. 81-98

To explain the shadow economy in the Baltic states of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia, this paper evaluates the relationship between the shadow economy and tax morale. Viewing tax morale as a measure of the symmetry between the codified laws and regulations of formal institutions (state morality)...

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The role of the informal economy in achieving the sustainable development goals in Europe

Dell' Anno, Roberto; Davidescu, Adriana Ana Maria; … - In: Amfiteatru Economic 26 (2024) Special Issue No. 18, pp. 1018-1125

This study investigated the relationship between the informal economy and sustainable development, focussing on how the shadow economy influenced the achievement of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) formulated in the 2030 Agenda in Europe. The research used data extracted from the...

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The aftermath of Nigeria's 2023 presidential elections and its impact on the sub-region

Kohnert, Dirk - 2023

Presidential elections were held in Nigeria on 25 February 2023. The candidate of Nigeria's ruling All Progressives … interfere in Nigeria's internal affairs. Given the recent history of military coups in West Africa, including Russia …. Although Nigeria is a resource-rich country and oil and gas revenues have funded national budgets for decades, around 40% of …

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