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Tackling Enterprises Operating in the Informal Sector in Developing and Transition Economies : A Critical Evaluation of the Neo-Liberal Policy Approach
Williams, Colin - 2015
Over the past decade or so, there has been widespread recognition that a large and growing proportion of the global workforce is employed in informal sector enterprises. To explain this, neo-liberals contend that enterprises operate in the informal sector due to high taxes, public sector...
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Re-Thinking the Nature of the Informal Economy : Some Lessons from Ukraine
Williams, Colin; Round, John - 2015
This article provides a critical evaluation of the competing discourses that variously represent the informal economy as a residue or leftover of some pre-capitalist era, a by-product of a new type of emergent formal economy, an alternative mode of work organization or a complement to the formal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014130755
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The size, origins, and character of Mongolia's informal sector during the transition
Anderson, James Horton - 1998
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The size, origins, and character of Mongolia's informal sector during the transition
Anderson, James H. - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000989342
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The Size, Origins, and Character of Mongolia's Informal Sector During the Transition
Anderson, James H. - 2017
The explosion of informal entrepreneurial activity during Mongolia's transition to a market economy represents one of … Mongolia's informal sector during the transition, the author merges anecdotal experience from qualitative interviews with hard … activity in Mongolia, estimates that are surprisingly consistent with each other. He evaluates four types of reasons for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012947910
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Total factor productivity and the Mongolian transition
Chessa, Antonio G.; Schouwstra, Marije C. - 2005
economy in those countries. In the case of Mongolia, not only non-viable enterprises closed down, but many possibly viable … into the development of TFP in Mongolia. Simulations are performed to see what happens with TFP if not the le! ast … Productivity of Mongolia was tested not only for errors in all estimated values but also for measurement errors in the data. It was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346474
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What determines the adaptation of enterprises to COVID-19 in CAREC member countries : empirical evidence from Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia
Aseinov, Dastan; Sulaimanova, Burulcha; Karymshakov, … - 2022
, Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia. Using a probit model, we studied how different factors, including firm characteristics and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012800706
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What Determines the Adaptation of Enterprises to COVID-19 in CAREC Member Countries : Empirical Evidence from Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia
Aseinov, Dastan; Sulaimanova, Burulcha; Karymshakov, … - 2022
Mongolia. Using a probit model, we studied how different factors, including firm characteristics and government policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014030063
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A Model of Russia's Virtual Economy
Ickes, Barry W.; Ericson, Richard E. - 2000
The Russian Economy has evolved into a hybrid form, a partially monetized quasi-market system that has been called the virtual economy. In the virtual economy, barter and non-monetary transactions play a key role in transferring value from productive activities to the loss-making sectors of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014154709
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Testing Russia's Virtual Economy
Ivanenko, Vlad - 2003
In the aftermath of sovereign default of August 1998, the hypothesis of virtual economy in Russia developed by Gaddy and Ickes has gained popularity. The hypothesis states that the country has not moved towards free-market economy but developed a system of implicit price subsidization similar to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014118904