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Can Enhancing the Benefits of Formalization Induce Informal Firms to Become Formal? Experimental Evidence from Benin

Benhassine, Najy - 2018

Governments around the world have introduced reforms to attempt to make it easier for informal firms to formalize. However, most informal firms have not gone on to become formal, especially when tax registration is involved. A randomized experiment based around the introduction of the...

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Finding a Path to Formalization in Benin : Early Results after the Introduction of the Entreprenant Legal Status

Benhassine, Najy - 2017

In April 2014, the Government of Benin launched the entreprenant status, a simplified and free legal regime offered to small informal businesses to enter the formal economy. This paper presents the short-term results of a randomized impact evaluation testing three different versions of the...

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Female Business Ownership and Informal Sector Persistence

Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017

The informal sector in India has been exceptionally persistent over the past two decades. Is this a bad thing? Not necessarily. This paper shows that a substantial share of the persistence in India's unorganized manufacturing sector is due to the rapid increase in female-owned businesses. Had...

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Friend or Foe or Family? A Tale of Formal and Informal Plants in India

Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017

sector in India. How has the size and productivity of the plants in the organized sector affected the plants in the … on and responsive to organized sector presence than vice versa. Second, unorganized sector productivity is dependent on … and responsive to organized sector productivity and presence but the reverse is not true …

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Urbanization and Agglomeration Benefits : Gender Differentiated Impacts on Enterprise Creation in India's Informal Sector

Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017

This paper presents an exploration at the intersection of four important themes in the current development discourse: urbanization, agglomeration benefits, gender and informality. Focusing on the important policy objective of new enterprise creation in the informal sector, it asks and answers...

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Entry Regulation and Formalization of Microenterprises in Developing Countries

Bruhn, Miriam - 2017

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 Exceptional Persistence of India's Unorganized Sector

Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017

The transformation of India's unorganized sector is important to its modernization, growth, and attainment of regional economic equality. This paper documents several key facts about India's unorganized sector in manufacturing and services. First, the unorganized sector is large, accounting for...

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A Helping Hand or the Long Arm of the Law? Experimental Evidence on What Governments Can Do to Formalize Firms

de Andrade, Gustavo Henrique - 2017

Many governments have spent much of the past decade trying to extend a helping hand to informal businesses by making it easier and cheaper for them to formalize. Much less effort has been devoted to raising the costs of remaining informal, through increasing enforcement of existing regulations....

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The Demand for, and Consequences of, Formalization Among Informal Firms in Sri Lanka

de Mel, Suresh - 2017

The majority of firms in most developing countries are informal. The authors of this paper conducted a field experiment in Sri Lanka that provided incentives for informal firms to formalize. Offering only information about the registration process and reimbursement for direct registration costs...

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Business Practices in Small Firms in Developing Countries

McKenzie, David J. - 2017

Management has a large effect on the productivity of large firms. But does management matter in micro and small firms … explains as much of the variation in outcomes ? sales, profits, and labor productivity and total factor productivity ? in …

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