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Informal Payments and Moonlighting in Tajikistan's Health Sector
Dabalen, Andrew; Wane, Waly - 2012
This paper studies the relationship between gender and corruption in the health sector. It uses data collected directly … payments as an indicator of corruption, women seem at first significantly less corrupt than men as consistently suggested by … advantage of corruption opportunities as men. Female-headed facilities also are not less likely to experience informal charging …
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Road Improvement and Deforestation in the Congo Basin Countries
Damania, Richard; Wheeler, David - 2015
Road construction has often been viewed as the precursor to deforestation, especially in tropical forests. Traditional responses to such threats have been reactive, with attempts to mitigate impacts through physical measures, or the establishment of protected areas. These approaches often have...
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Profiling Living Conditions of the DRC Urban Population : Access to Housing and Services in Kinshasa Province
Batana, Yele Maweki; Jarotschkin, Alexandra; Konou, Akakpo - 2021
This paper examines living conditions - mainly access to infrastructure and basic services - in Kinshasa, by focusing on how they vary within the city and how they are related to household characteristics. First, drawing on a household survey conducted in the capital province in 2018, the paper...
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Informality in Latin America and the Caribbean
Loayza, Norman V.; Serv??n, Luis; Sugawara, Naotaka - 2012
This paper studies the causes and consequences of informality and applies the analysis to countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. It starts with a discussion on the definition and measures of informality, as well as on the reasons why widespread informality should be of great concern. The...
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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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Do Workers in Chile Choose Informal Employment? A Dynamic Analysis of Sector Choice
Packard, Truman G. - 2012
The degree to which a labor market is segmented and jobs in the formal sector of the economy are rationed is critical to the analysis of coverage of social insurance and pensions. Using unique panel data spanning the 1998-99 contraction in Chile, the author finds little evidence that...
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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 Business Start-ups : Evidence from Mexico
Kaplan, David S.; Piedra, Eduardo; Seira, Enrique - 2012
municipalities with less corruption and cheaper additional procedures. …
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The Determinants of Rising Informality in Brazil : Evidence from Gross Worker Flows
Bosch, Mariano; Goni, Edwin; Maloney, William - 2012
This paper studies gross worker flows to explain the rising informality in Brazilian metropolitan labor markets from 1983 to 2002. This period covers two economic cycles, several stabilization plans, a far-reaching trade liberalization, and changes in labor legislation through the Constitutional...
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Does It Pay Firms to Register for Taxes? The Impact of Formality on Firm Profitability
McKenzie, David; Sakho, Yaye Seynabou - 2012
paper identifies the impact of tax registration on business profitability using the distance of a firm from the tax office … the tax office provides firms with more information about registration, but is argued to not directly affect profits. The … findings show that tax registration leads to significantly higher profits for the firms that the instrument affects. However …
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