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Hiding in the shadows : the growth of the underground economy /
"A factory worker has a second job driving an unlicensed taxi at night; a plumber fixes a broken water pipe for a client, gets paid in cash but doesn't declare his earnings to the tax collector; a drug dealer brokers a sale with a prospective customer on a street corner. These are all exam...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
International Monetary Fund,
2002.
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| Colección: | Economic issues (International Monetary Fund) ;
30. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "A factory worker has a second job driving an unlicensed taxi at night; a plumber fixes a broken water pipe for a client, gets paid in cash but doesn't declare his earnings to the tax collector; a drug dealer brokers a sale with a prospective customer on a street corner. These are all examples of the underground or shadow economy - activities, both legal and illegal, that add up to trillions of dollars a year that take place "off the books," out of the gaze of taxmen and government statisticians. Although crime and shadow economic activities have long been a fact of life - and are now increasing around the world - almost all societies try to control their growth, because of the potentially serious consequences."--Preface |
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| Notas: | Based on IMF working paper 00/26, "Shadow Economies Around the World: Size, Causes, and Consequences," February 2000. "Rachel Weaving prepared the text for this pamphlet. Some of the data, including the sample size, has been updated by Professor Schneider for this pamphlet."--Preface "Published March 2002"--Electronic information screen Title from HTML file as viewed on 21 Nov 2005. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (iii, 16 pages) |
| ISBN: | 1589060962 9781589060968 9781451935288 1451935285 1462316956 9781462316953 1452770549 9781452770543 |
| ISSN: | 1020-5098 ; |