The Informal Economy in Global Perspective
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The Informal Economy in Global Perspective

Varieties of Governance

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The Informal Economy in Global Perspective

Varieties of Governance

About this book

This book critically engages with how formal and informal mechanisms of governance are used across the world. Specifically, it analyzes how the governance mechanisms of formal institutions are questioned, challenged and renegotiated through informal institutions. Whilst there is an emerging body of scholarship focusing on informal practices, this is scattered across a number of disciplines. This edited collection, by contrast, fosters a dialogue on these issues, moving away from monodisciplinary and normative methodologies that view informal institutions and practices simply as temporary economic phenomena. In doing so, the authors provide a wider understanding of how governance is composed of both the formal and the informal, which complement each other but are also constantly in competition. This novel approach will appeal to social scientists, economists, policy-makers, practitioners, and anyone else willing to widen their understanding of how governance works.








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Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. Contents
  3. Acronyms
  4. Contributors
  5. List of Figures
  6. List of Tables
  7. Introduction: Informal Economies as Varieties of Governance
  8. Why Read Informality in a Substantivist Manner? On the Embeddedness of the Soviet Second Economy
  9. Informal Economy: The Invisible Hand of Government
  10. Estimating the Size of the Croatian Shadow Economy: A Labour Approach
  11. Informal Employment and Earnings Determination in Ukraine
  12. Approaching Informality: Rear-Mirror Methodology and Ethnographic Inquiry
  13. Explaining the Informal Economy in  Post-­Communist Societies: A Study of the Asymmetry Between Formal and Informal Institutions in Romania
  14. Post-Socialist Informality Rural Style: Impressions from Bulgaria
  15. Exploring the Practice of Making Informal Payments in the Health Sector: Some Lessons from Greece
  16. Violent Pressure on Business and the Size of the Informal Economy: Evidence from Russian Regions
  17. Labor Informality in Mexico: An Indicator Analysis
  18. The Interplay Between Formal and Informal Firms and Its Implications on Jobs in Francophone Africa: Case Studies of Senegal and Benin
  19. Governing Informal Payments by Market in the Chinese Healthcare System
  20. Social Mechanisms of the Counterpublic Sphere: A Case of a Coffee Farmers’ Cooperative in LAO PDR
  21. Formalisation of Entrepreneurship in the Informal Economy in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Role of Formal Institutions: An Analysis of Ghana’s Experience
  22. Evidence on Corruption in Public Procurements in Healthcare and the Implications for Policy
  23. Index