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WIEGO Co-organizes Workshops on Promoting Health Justice and Systems Change for Workers in Informal Employment in Brazil and India Read More
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License To Sell: The Effect Of Business Registration Reform On Entrepreneurial Activity In Mexico This paper estimates the economic effects of a recent reform that simplified business entry regulation in Mexico. The reform was introduced... Read More
Regulatory Governance and the Informal Economy: Cross-National Comparisons This article examines the relationship between state regulation and the informal economy at the macro-level across a broad set of countries.... Read More
On the Charts, Off the Tracks: Disconnected Development in Ambur Town, Tamil Nadu Economic and Political Weekly This paper on Ambur town of Tamil Nadu, an important hub for leather goods production, catering primarily to an international market, explores... Read More
Informal Employment and Development: Patterns of Inclusion and ExclusionThe European Journal of Development Research At present, there is renewed interest in the informal economy worldwide. This renewed interest has rekindled some of the old debates about... Read More
Working Life of Street Vendors in MumbaiThe Indian Journal Of Labour Economics Abstract: Street vendors in Mumbai are among the most deprived sections of the self-employed workers. This paper tries to portray the ‘working... Read More
Thresholds, informality, and partitions of complianceInternational Tax and Public Finance Abstract: This paper aims to establish and explore the links between two threads in the public finance literature. One is the use of tax... Read More
Monetary Policy and Informal FinanceEconomic and Political Weekly This article utilises state-level data for 1961-2012 to examine the interlinkage between informal finance and monetary policy. The analysis... Read More
Linking Trade and Labour Standards: A Promising Synergy or Double-edged Sword? Acta Juridica Trade liberalisation is increasingly promoted and regulated through regional, bilateral or unilateral trade arrangements. In recent years... Read More
Neoliberal austerity and the marketisation of elderly careSocial and Cultural Geography Taking the recent debate on austerity as a starting point, this paper discusses contradictions in current processes of neoliberalisation... Read More
The Informal Economy: Recent Trends, Future Directions Abstract: Informal employment represents more than half of nonagricultural employment in most developing regions, contributes to the overall... Read More
