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The informal sector in francophone Africa : firm size, productivity, and institutions /
The informal sector in West Africa has some distinctive characteristics. Informality usually connotes small and unorganized producers operating on the fringes of the formal economy. In West African countries, however, the normal situation is to some extent reversed: a dynamic informal sector dominat...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Washington, D.C. :
World Bank Publications,
2012.
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| Colección: | Africa development forum.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The informal sector in francophone Africa : |b firm size, productivity, and institutions / |c Nancy Benjamin and Ahmadou Aly Mbaye ; with Ibrahima Thione Diop [and others]. |
| 260 | |a Washington, D.C. : |b World Bank Publications, |c 2012. | ||
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| 505 | 0 | |a Outline: Characteristics of informal businesses in West Africa -- Institutional, regulatory and socio-culturalenvironment -- Costs and benefits of informality: productivity, living standards, and tax revenue -- Main onclusions and recommendations -- Chapter 1. The informal sector in West Africa: definition -- Chapter 2. Data sources and methods -- Chapter 3. The informal sector in west Africa: overview of economic significance and welfare effects -- Chapter 4. Large informal firms in West Africa -- Chapter 5. Characteristics of the informal sector: findings from our surveys -- Chapter 6. The institutional environment of the informal sector in West Africa -- Chapter 7. Informality and productivity -- Chapter 8. Informal trading networks in West Africa: the Mourides of Senegal/Gambia and the Yoruba of Benin/Nigeria -- Chapter 9. Government policies, smuggling and the informal sector. | |
| 520 | |a The informal sector in West Africa has some distinctive characteristics. Informality usually connotes small and unorganized producers operating on the fringes of the formal economy. In West African countries, however, the normal situation is to some extent reversed: a dynamic informal sector dominates the stagnant formal economy. Moreover, in these countries, small operators coexist with very large and politically well-connected informal enterprises and well-organized networks. Notwithstanding its importance, there have been relatively few systematic studies of this dual feature of the informa. | ||
| 588 | 0 | |a Print version record. | |
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| 650 | 0 | |a Informal sector (Economics) |z Africa, French-speaking West. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Small business |z Africa, French-speaking West. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Africa, West |x Economic conditions |y 1960- | |
| 651 | 6 | |a Afrique occidentale |x Conditions économiques |y 1960- | |
| 650 | 7 | |a BUSINESS & ECONOMICS |x Corporate & Business History. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a BUSINESS & ECONOMICS |x Infrastructure. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Economic history |2 fast | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Informal sector (Economics) |2 fast | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Small business |2 fast | |
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| 700 | 1 | |a Diop, Ibrahima Thione. | |
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