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Informality and Illegality: Unpacking the Relationship

By on May 01, 2015

The informal economy is often associated with illegality. But this assumed relationship is not clearly defined or understood. What aspects of the informal economy are considered illegal: informal units and activities or informal operators and workers? What is illegal about them: the goods and services they produce or how they produce and distribute them?

 

This note seeks to unpack the assumed relationship between informality and illegality - from the perspective of the working poor in the informal economy.

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