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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.