Firm informality is pervasive throughout the developing world, and Bangladesh is no exception. The informal status of … many firms substantially reduces the tax basis and therefore affects the provision of public goods. The literature on … developing-country setting to deal with the most direct and dominant form of informality: the lack of registration with the tax …

informality as a continuum consisting of four degrees. The quantitative data includes 516 manufacturing enterprises which are … effects of formalization. It suggests that the most informal firms do not benefit from formalization due to their underlying …

different informality definitions. The first is binary, based on whether firms pay taxes. The second captures five categories of …Using a novel panel survey of enterprises in Myanmar, we compare the performance of manufacturing firms by three … registration with the authorities, and the third definition relates to three groupings of the informality status of a firm …

Firms informality is pervasive in Bangladesh. We implemented an information campaign on registration and find that the … treatment made firms more aware, but had no impact on registration. Low benefits and high indirect costs appear to be barriers …

Firm informality is pervasive throughout the developing world, and Bangladesh is no exception. The informal status of … many firms substantially reduces the tax basis and therefore affects the provision of public goods. The literature on … developing-country setting to deal with the most direct and dominant form of informality: the lack of registration with the tax …

informality as a continuum consisting of four degrees. The quantitative data includes 516 manufacturing enterprises which are … effects of formalization. It suggests that the most informal firms do not benefit from formalization due to their underlying …