Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Theorising entrepreneurship in the informal sector -- An institutionalist perspective -- Determinants of institutional asymmetry -- Informal sector entrepreneurship in global perspective -- Prevalence of informal entrepreneurship -- Impacts of informal...

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