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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis; Ravi Kanbur; Elinor Ostrom |
| ISBN: | 0199204764 9780199204762 |
| OCLC Number: | 474840166 |
| Description: | 294 s. |
| Contents: | 1. Beyond Formality and Informality; CONCEPTS AND MEASUREMENT; 2. Bureaucratic Form and the Informal Economy; 3. The Global Path: Soft Law and Non-sovereigns Formalizing the Potency of the Informal Sector; 4. The Relevance of the Concepts of Formality and Informality: A Theoretical Appraisal; 5. Rethinking the Informal Economy: Linkages with the Formal Economy and the Formal Regulatory Environment; 6. Formal and Informal Enterprises: Concept, Definition, and Measurement Issues in India; EMPIRICAL STUDIES OF POLICIES AND INTERLINKING; 7. The Impact of Regulation on Growth and Informality: Cross-Country Evidence; 8. Financial Liberalization in Vietnam: Impact on Loans from Informal, Formal, and Semi-formal Providers; 9. Blocking Human Potential: How Formal Policies Block the Informal Economy in the Maputo Corridor; 10. Microinsurance for the Informal Economy Workers in India; 11. Turning to Forestry for a Way Out of Poverty: Is Formalizing Property Rights Enough?; 12. Voluntary Contributions to Informal Activities Producing Public Goods: Can These be Induced by Government and other Formal Sector Agents? Some Evidence from Indonesian Posyandus; 13. Social Capital, Survival Strategies, and their Potential for Post-Conflict Governance in Liberia; 14. Enforcement and Compliance in Lima's Street Markets: The Origins and Consequences of Policy Incoherence Toward Informal Traders; 15. Formalizing the Informal: Is There a Way to Safely Unlock Human Potential Through Land Entitlement? A Review of Changing Land Administration in Africa. |
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No matter how you divide up the developing world -- 'formal-informal',' legal -- 'extra-legal' --(my preference)one thing is not debatable: most people are poor, on the outside of the system looking in, and getting angrier every day. The message of this book is its time to stop talking and start designing reforms -- based on the informal practices and organizations that poor entrepreneurs already use. I second that motion. If you rebuild the system from the bottom-up, they will come -- with their enterprise, creativity, and piles of potential capital. Hernando de Soto, President, Institute for Liberty and Democracy, Peru Read more...
