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Regulation and Noncompliance : Magnitudes and Patterns for India's Factories Act
Chatterjee, Urmila; Kanbur, Ravi - 2014
Noncompliance with regulations by enterprises is said to be rife in developing countries. Yet there is limited systematic evidence of the magnitude of noncompliance at the enterprise level. Making innovative use of two complementary data sources, this paper quantifies noncompliance for India's...
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Structural Change, Dualism and Economic Development : The Role of the Vulnerable Poor on Marginal Lands
Barbier, Edward B. - 2013
. As a consequence, productivity increases and expansion in the commercial primary production sector will cause …
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Does Competition from Informal Firms Impact R&D by Formal SMEs? Evidence Using Firm-Level Survey Data
Amin, Mohammad - 2021
The informal sector is an important source of livelihoods and jobs for a vast majority of people in developing countries. However, there is concern that it may undermine growth and development of the formal sector. For instance, the growth literature indicates that research and development...
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Cyclical Movements in Unemployment and Informality in Developing Countries
Bosch, Mariano; Maloney, William - 2012
This paper analyzes the cyclical properties of worker flows in Brazil and Mexico, two important developing countries with large unregulated or informal sectors. It generates three stylized facts that are critical to the accurate modeling of the sector and which suggest the need to rethink the...
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A Framework for Thinking about Enterprise Formalization Policies in Developing Countries
Kenyon, Thomas - 2012
What policies encourage firms to become formal? The standard approach emphasizes reducing the costs of compliance with government regulation. This is unlikely to be sufficient. Instead we need to understand compliance as a function not only of firm-level costs and benefits but also in terms of...
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Entry Regulation and Formalization of Microenterprises in Developing Countries
Bruhn, Miriam; McKenzie, David - 2013
The majority of microenterprises in most developing countries remain informal despite more than a decade of reforms aimed at making it easier and cheaper for them to formalize. This paper summarizes the evidence on the effects of entry reforms and related policy actions to promote firm...
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The Impact of Health Insurance Schemes for the Informal Sector in Low- and Middle-Income Countries : A Systematic Review
Acharya, Arnab; Vellakkal, Sukumar; Taylor, Fiona - 2013
This paper summarizes the literature on the impact of state subsidized or social health insurance schemes that have been offered, mostly on a voluntary basis, to the informal sector in low- and middle-income countries. A substantial number of papers provide estimations of average treatment on...
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Trade Facilitation and Country Size
Amin, Mohammad; Haidar, Jamal Ibrahim - 2014
It is argued that compared with large countries, small countries rely more on trade and therefore they are more likely to adopt liberal trading policies. The present paper extends this idea beyond the conventional trade openness measures by analyzing the relationship between country size and the...
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Size and Age of Establishments : Evidence from Developing Countries
Ayyagari, Meghana; Demirguc-Kunt, Asli; Maksimovic, Vojislav - 2014
Survey data from 120 developing countries are used to examine the relation between establishment size and age in the formal sector. Existing research suggests that manufacturing establishments in developing countries do not grow over time, most likely because of market imperfections and...
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Network Effects of the Productivity of Infrastructure in Developing Countries
Hurlin, Christophe - 2012
Using panel data models, the author examines the threshold effects of the productivity of infrastructure investment in … particular, the productivity of infrastructure investment generally exhibits some network effects. When the available stock of … infrastructure is very low, investment in this sector has the same productivity as noninfrastructure investment. On the contrary …
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