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Informality in the Process of Development and Growth
Loayza, Norman V. - 2016
"Informality" is a term used to describe the collection of firms, workers, and activities that operate outside the legal and regulatory systems. It is widespread in the majority of developing countries-in a typical developing economy, the informal sector produces about 35 percent of gross...
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An Opportunity for All : Venezuelan Migrants and Refugees and Peru's Development
World Bank Group - 2019
objective of this study is to determine the social, economic and sectoral implications that this phenomenon is having on Peru … characterizes the different dimensions of the Venezuelan migration to Peru: from the trajectory to the country, the institutional … integration of the migrant and refugee population in Peru …
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Informality, harassment, and corruption : evidence from informal enterprise data from Harare, Zimbabwe
Francis, David - 2019
New representative survey data for Harare, Zimbabwe are used to analyze the conditions under which informal businesses encounter requests for bribes. A simple model develops basic expectations of bribe exposure: those with higher opportunity costs of formalizing and with a higher ability to pay...
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Busting the myth : the impact of increasing the minimum wage : the experience of Romania
Heemskerk, Frank; Voinea, Liviu; Cojocaru, Alexandra - 2018
This paper discusses the impact of a gradual, pre-announced significant increase of the minimum wage during 2013-16 in Romania. The main finding is that the positive effects prevail when the starting level of increase in the minimum wage is very low and the economy is in a negative output gap....
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Informal Enterprises in Kenya
World Bank - 2016
This note draws from an emerging literature on firm informality as well as data collected on micro enterprises and informal firms as part of the World Bank's enterprise survey initiative for Kenya. The purpose of the note is to assess the main constraints facing informal firms, identify patterns...
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Extending Pension Coverage to the Informal Sector in Africa
Guven, Melis - 2019
The coverage of pension systems in the Africa region is limited to the small segment of the population in the formal sector. Coverage is thin partly because traditional contributory pension schemes are not responding to the needs of the informal sector. As a result, a large share of the region's...
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Bangladesh Right To Information Survey 2019
World Bank Group - 2020
The year 2019 marks the tenth year of the Right to Information (RTI) act enactment in Bangladesh. The Government of Bangladesh (GoB) has made good progress in implementing the RTI Act 2009 in the past decade. The RTI survey was conducted between January and March of 2019. The survey results...
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How do small formal and informal firms in the Arab Republic of Egypt compare?
Krafft, Caroline; Asʿad, Rāǧī; Rahman, Khandker Wahedur - 2020
Formalizing firms can potentially increase the tax base, expand safety and social protections for workers, create good jobs, and grow the economy. However, the costs and processes of formality may be too challenging for firms, particularly the smallest firms, to bear. Thus, informal firms may...
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Are Minimum Wages and Payroll Taxes a Constraint to the Creation of Formal Jobs in Morocco?
Angel-Urdinola, Diego F. - 2016
This paper uses a search-and-matching model to examine the effects of labor regulations that influence the cost of formal labor (notably minimum wages and payroll taxes) on labor market outcomes in Morocco. The model assumes that the informal sector is unregulated and thus not directly affected...
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Small Firms' Formalization: The Stick Treatment
De Giorgi, Giacomo - 2015
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