The Investment Climate for Female Informal Businesses : A Case Study from Urban and Rural India

There is worldwide growth in the numbers of people working in the informal economy, either as self-employed in unregistered enterprises or as wage workers in unprotected jobs. Despite earlier predictions to the contrary, it is now widely recognized that the informal economy is a permanent phenomenon...

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Main Authors:	Chen, Marty, Jhabvala, Renana, Nanavaty, Reema
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC: World Bank 2012
Subjects:	World Development Report 2005
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9224

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spelling	okr-10986-92242021-04-23T14:02:44Z The Investment Climate for Female Informal Businesses : A Case Study from Urban and Rural India Chen, Marty Jhabvala, Renana Nanavaty, Reema World Development Report 2005 There is worldwide growth in the numbers of people working in the informal economy, either as self-employed in unregistered enterprises or as wage workers in unprotected jobs. Despite earlier predictions to the contrary, it is now widely recognized that the informal economy is a permanent phenomenon, integrally linked to modern capitalist development and to global integration. Although the relationship between the informal economy, the formal economy, and the formal regulatory environment are complex, it is now also widely recognized that informal enterprises, especially those run by women, face different and, arguably, greater constraints to business development than formal enterprises face. 2012-06-26T15:41:58Z 2012-06-26T15:41:58Z 2003 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9224 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank South Asia
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description	There is worldwide growth in the numbers of people working in the informal economy, either as self-employed in unregistered enterprises or as wage workers in unprotected jobs. Despite earlier predictions to the contrary, it is now widely recognized that the informal economy is a permanent phenomenon, integrally linked to modern capitalist development and to global integration. Although the relationship between the informal economy, the formal economy, and the formal regulatory environment are complex, it is now also widely recognized that informal enterprises, especially those run by women, face different and, arguably, greater constraints to business development than formal enterprises face.
author	Chen, Marty Jhabvala, Renana Nanavaty, Reema
author_facet	Chen, Marty Jhabvala, Renana Nanavaty, Reema
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title	The Investment Climate for Female Informal Businesses : A Case Study from Urban and Rural India
title_short	The Investment Climate for Female Informal Businesses : A Case Study from Urban and Rural India
title_full	The Investment Climate for Female Informal Businesses : A Case Study from Urban and Rural India
title_fullStr	The Investment Climate for Female Informal Businesses : A Case Study from Urban and Rural India
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The Investment Climate for Female Informal Businesses : A Case Study from Urban and Rural India

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