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spelling okr-10986-112092021-04-23T14:02:54Z Rising Informality Palmade, Vincent Anayiotos, Andrea ACCOUNTABILITY ASSETS CITIES COLLATERAL ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE EMPLOYMENT EVASION FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS HOUSING IMPORT TARIFFS INVENTORY LAWS LOCAL GOVERNMENTS MICROFINANCE MIDDLE EAST MIGRATION MONOPOLIES NORTH AFRICA PRIVATE BANKS PRIVATE SECTOR PRIVATIZATION PRODUCTIVITY PROPERTY RIGHTS PROPERTY TAXES PUBLIC POLICY PUBLIC SECTOR PUBLIC SPENDING QUALITY STANDARDS SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA TAX TRANSPARENCY UTILITIES By some estimates more than 30 percent of the developing world's GDP and 70 percent of its workers are outside the official economy. The implications: Most small firms are trapped in low-productivity operations with little access to finance, key government services, and formal customers. Workers lack safety and social protection. And bigger, better-connected firms use unfair informal practices to beat out more productive formal competitors. The result is slower economic growth and a growing social divide between the informal and formal parts of society. 2012-08-13T14:27:15Z 2012-08-13T14:27:15Z 2005-08 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/08/6242398/rising-informality http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11209 English Viewpoint: Public Policy for the Private Sector; Note No. 298 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Viewpoint Publications & Research
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topic ACCOUNTABILITY
ASSETS
CITIES
COLLATERAL
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE
EMPLOYMENT
EVASION
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS
HOUSING
IMPORT TARIFFS
INVENTORY
LAWS
LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
MICROFINANCE
MIDDLE EAST
MIGRATION
MONOPOLIES
NORTH AFRICA
PRIVATE BANKS
PRIVATE SECTOR
PRIVATIZATION
PRODUCTIVITY
PROPERTY RIGHTS
PROPERTY TAXES
PUBLIC POLICY
PUBLIC SECTOR
PUBLIC SPENDING
QUALITY STANDARDS
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
TAX
TRANSPARENCY
UTILITIES
spellingShingle ACCOUNTABILITY
ASSETS
CITIES
COLLATERAL
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE
EMPLOYMENT
EVASION
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS
HOUSING
IMPORT TARIFFS
INVENTORY
LAWS
LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
MICROFINANCE
MIDDLE EAST
MIGRATION
MONOPOLIES
NORTH AFRICA
PRIVATE BANKS
PRIVATE SECTOR
PRIVATIZATION
PRODUCTIVITY
PROPERTY RIGHTS
PROPERTY TAXES
PUBLIC POLICY
PUBLIC SECTOR
PUBLIC SPENDING
QUALITY STANDARDS
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
TAX
TRANSPARENCY
UTILITIES
Palmade, Vincent
Anayiotos, Andrea
Rising Informality
relation Viewpoint: Public Policy for the Private Sector; Note No. 298
description By some estimates more than 30 percent of the developing world's GDP and 70 percent of its workers are outside the official economy. The implications: Most small firms are trapped in low-productivity operations with little access to finance, key government services, and formal customers. Workers lack safety and social protection. And bigger, better-connected firms use unfair informal practices to beat out more productive formal competitors. The result is slower economic growth and a growing social divide between the informal and formal parts of society.
format Publications & Research :: Viewpoint
author Palmade, Vincent
Anayiotos, Andrea
author_facet Palmade, Vincent
Anayiotos, Andrea
author_sort Palmade, Vincent
title Rising Informality
title_short Rising Informality
title_full Rising Informality
title_fullStr Rising Informality
title_full_unstemmed Rising Informality
title_sort rising informality
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2012
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/08/6242398/rising-informality
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