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An idea in good currency and how it grew: The informal sector

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  1. Fortin, Bernard & Marceau, Nicolas & Savard, Luc, 1997. "Taxation, wage controls and the informal sector," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 66(2), pages 293-312, November.
  2. S. Selvadurai & R. Moorthy & N. Lyndon & A. C. Er, 2011. "Persistence of Traditional Retailing in an Island Town," American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Science Publications, vol. 3(3), pages 450-455, September.
  3. V Lawson & T Klak, 1993. "An Argument for Critical and Comparative Research on the Urban Economic Geography of the Americas," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 25(8), pages 1071-1084, August.
  4. Swaminathan, M., 1991. "Understanding the "Informal Sector": A Survey," Research Paper 95, World Institute for Development Economics Research.
  5. Alan Gilbert, 1994. "Third World Cities: Poverty, Employment, Gender Roles and the Environment during a Time of Restructuring," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 31(4-5), pages 605-633, May.
  6. L Thorne, 1996. "Local Exchange Trading Systems in the United Kingdom: A Case of Re-Embedding?," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 28(8), pages 1361-1376, August.
  7. Weijland, H., 1990. "Target groups for industrial policy : the case of rural Indonesia," Serie Research Memoranda 0089, VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Econometrics.
  8. Slonimczyk, Fabian, 2011. "The effect of taxation on informal employment: evidence from the Russian flat tax reform," MPRA Paper 35404, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  9. Rina Agarwala, 2017. "Using legal empowerment for labour rights in India," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2017-57, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
  10. Cunningham, Wendy V & Maloney, William F, 2001. "Heterogeneity among Mexico's Microenterprises: An Application of Factor and Cluster Analysis," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 50(1), pages 131-156, October.
  11. repec:idq:ictduk:13663 is not listed on IDEAS
  12. Srinivas, Smita, 2007. "Urban labour markets in the 21st century: dualism, regulation and the role(s) of the State," MPRA Paper 53099, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  13. Lahimer, Noomen, 2009. "La contribution des investissements directs étrangers à la réduction de la pauvreté en Afrique subsaharienne," Economics Thesis from University Paris Dauphine, Paris Dauphine University, number 123456789/1167 edited by Goaied, Mohamed & Bienaymé, Alain.
  14. Clement, Christine, 2015. "The formal-informal economy dualism in a retrospective of economic thought since the 1940s," Violette Reihe: Schriftenreihe des Promotionsschwerpunkts "Globalisierung und Beschäftigung" 43/2015, University of Hohenheim, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Evangelisches Studienwerk.
  15. Vinit Mukhija, 2004. "The Contradictions in Enabling Private Developers of Affordable Housing: A Cautionary Case from Ahmedabad, India," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 41(11), pages 2231-2244, October.
  16. Berins Collier, Ruth & Handlin, Samuel P., 2005. "Shifting Interest Regimes of the Working Classes in Latin America," Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, Working Paper Series qt9tz0z2gq, Institute of Industrial Relations, UC Berkeley.
  17. Jackle, Annette E & Li, Carmen A, 2006. "Firm Dynamics and Institutional Participation: A Case Study on Informality of Micro Enterprises in Peru," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 54(3), pages 557-578, April.
  18. Clément Longondjo Etambakonga & Julia Roloff, 2020. "Protecting Environment or People? Pitfalls and Merits of Informal Labour in the Congolese Recycling Industry," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 161(4), pages 815-834, February.
  19. Mazhar, Ummad & Méon, Pierre-Guillaume, 2017. "Taxing the unobservable: The impact of the shadow economy on inflation and taxation," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 90(C), pages 89-103.
  20. Patel, Urjit R. & Srivastava, Pradeep, 1996. "Macroeconomic policy and output comovement: The formal and informal sectors in India," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 24(12), pages 1915-1923, December.
  21. R Prud'homme, 1992. "Informal Local Taxation in Developing Countries," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 10(1), pages 1-17, March.
  22. Ellora Derenoncourt & François Gerard & Lorenzo Lagos & Claire Montialoux, 2025. "Minimum Wages and Informality," Sciences Po Economics Publications (main) hal-05336350, HAL.
  23. Mayoux, Linda., 2001. "Jobs, gender and small enterprises : getting the policy environment right," ILO Working Papers 993467093402676, International Labour Organization.
  24. Fass, Simon M., 1995. "Fast food in development," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 23(9), pages 1555-1573, September.
  25. Azunre, Gideon Abagna & Amponsah, Owusu & Takyi, Stephen Appiah & Mensah, Henry & Braimah, Imoro, 2022. "Urban informalities in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA): A solution for or barrier against sustainable city development," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 152(C).
  26. Abel Polese & Gian Marco Moisé & Talshyn Tokyzhanova & Tommaso Aguzzi & Tanel Kerikmäe & Ainoura Sagynbaeva & Arnis Sauka & Oleksandra Seliverstova, 2023. "Informality versus shadow economy: reflecting on the first results of a manager’s survey in Kyrgyzstan," Central Asian Survey, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 42(1), pages 149-170, January.
  27. Sally Roever, 2005. "Enforcement and Compliance in Lima's Street Markets: the Origins and Consequences of Policy Incoherence Toward Informal Traders," WIDER Working Paper Series RP2005-16, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
  28. Marty Chen, 2005. "Rethinking the Informal Economy: Linkages with the Formal Economy and the Formal Regulatory Environment," WIDER Working Paper Series RP2005-10, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
  29. Lay, Jann & Wiebelt, Manfred, 2001. "Towards a dual education system - a labour market perspective on poverty reduction in Bolivia," Kiel Working Papers 1073, Kiel Institute for the World Economy.
  30. repec:ilo:ilowps:289918 is not listed on IDEAS
  31. Richard Devey & Caroline Skinner & Imraan Valodia, 2006. "Second Best? Trends and Linkages in the Informal Economy in South Africa," Working Papers 06102, University of Cape Town, Development Policy Research Unit.
  32. Lahiri, Bidisha & Daramola, Richard, 2023. "Effects of credit and labor constraints on microenterprises and the unintended impact of changes in household endowments: Use of threshold estimation to detect heterogeneity," The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 88(C), pages 21-38.
  33. Helio Mau-Quei & Michael P. Cameron, 2019. "The Characteristics of the Informal Sector in Timor-Leste," Working Papers in Economics 19/05, University of Waikato.
  34. Victor Tanaka, 2010. "The ‘informal sector’ and the political economy of development," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 145(1), pages 295-317, October.
  35. repec:ilo:ilowps:346709 is not listed on IDEAS
  36. Roberts, J. Timmons, 1995. "Trickling down and scrambling up: The informal sector, food provisioning and local benefits of the Carajas mining "Growth Pole" in the Brazilian Amazon," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 23(3), pages 385-400, March.
  37. Levenson, Alec R. & Maloney, William F., 1998. "The informal sector, firm dynamics, and institutional participation," Policy Research Working Paper Series 1988, The World Bank.
  38. Abinotam J. Adike & Paschal U. Anosike & Yong Wang, 2022. "Two-sided Institutional Impacts and Informal Entrepreneurship Motivation in Nigeria," Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Economies, Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India, vol. 8(1), pages 158-175, January.
  39. repec:ilo:ilowps:354173 is not listed on IDEAS
  40. Jäckle, Annette E & Li, Carmen A, 2003. "Firm Dynamics and Institutional Participation: A Case Study on Informality of Micro-Enterprises in Peru," Economics Discussion Papers 3620, University of Essex, Department of Economics.
  41. Kim Dovey, 2025. "INFORMALITY AS THE UR‐FORM OF URBANITY: Keeping the Ur‐ in Urban Studies," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 49(1), pages 39-51, January.
  42. Feige, Edgar L., 1990. "Defining and estimating underground and informal economies: The new institutional economics approach," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 18(7), pages 989-1002, July.
  43. Jain, Varinder, 2020. "Vulnerability Exposure in Informal Manufacturing Sector A Reflection on Conceptual and Analytical Issues," MPRA Paper 103158, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  44. Lawrence F. Felt & Peter R. Sinclair, 1992. ""Everyone does it": Unpaid Work in a Rural Peripheral Region," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 6(1), pages 43-64, March.
  45. Colin Marx & Emily Kelling, 2019. "Knowing urban informalities," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 56(3), pages 494-509, February.
  46. Rina Agarwala, 2017. "Using legal empowerment for labour rights in India," WIDER Working Paper Series 057, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
  47. Justin van der Sluis & Mirjam van Praag & Wim Vijverberg, 2003. "Entrepreneurship Selection and Performance," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 03-046/3, Tinbergen Institute, revised 24 Sep 2004.
  48. Chen, Martha Alter. & Jhabvala, Renana. & Lund, F. J., 2002. "Supporting workers in the informal economy : a policy framework," ILO Working Papers 993541733402676, International Labour Organization.
  49. Tesfachew T., 1992. "Government policies and the urban informal sector in Africa," ILO Working Papers 992899183402676, International Labour Organization.
  50. Kate Meagher, 2021. "Informality and the Infrastructures of Inclusion: An Introduction," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 52(4), pages 729-755, July.
  51. Chen, Martha & Sebstad, Jennefer & O'Connell, Lesley, 1999. "Counting the Invisible Workforce: The Case of Homebased Workers," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 27(3), pages 603-610, March.
  52. Takao FUKUCHI, 1998. "A Simulation Analysis Of The Urban Informal Sector," The Developing Economies, Institute of Developing Economies, vol. 36(3), pages 225-256, September.
  53. Yohannes Edwin Kachenje*, 2025. "Rethinking Informality in Service Delivery: The Case of Water Supply in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania," International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS), vol. 9(6), pages 887-901, June.
  54. Maloney, William F., 2004. "Informality Revisited," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 32(7), pages 1159-1178, July.
  55. Collier, Ruth Berins & Palmer-Rubin, Brian, 2011. "Latin America’s New World of Work: Changing Traits of Work and Problem Solving," Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, Working Paper Series qt5dq7p600, Institute of Industrial Relations, UC Berkeley.
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