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The Informal Economy - Exploring Drivers and Practices (Paperback)
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The Informal Economy - Exploring Drivers and Practices (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Entrepreneurship
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During much of the twentieth century, informal employment and
entrepreneurship was commonly depicted as a residue from a previous
era. Its continuing presence was seen to be a sign of
"backwardness" whilst the formal economy represented "progress". In
recent decades, however, numerous studies have revealed not only
that informal employment is extensive and persistent but also that
it is growing relative to formal employment in many populations.
Whilst in the developing world, the informal economy is often found
to be the mainstream economy, nevertheless, in the developed world
too, informality is currently still estimated to account for
notable per cent of GDP. The Informal Economy: Exploring Drivers
and Practices intends to engage with these issues, providing a
much-need 'contextualised' approach to explain the persistence and
growth of forms of informal economic practices and entrepreneurial
activities in the twenty-first century. Using a diverse range of
empirical case studies from Europe, Africa, North Africa and Asia,
this book unpacks the different varieties of forms of informal work
and entrepreneurship and provides a critical analysis of existing
theorisations used to explain such phenomena. This book's aim is to
examine the nature and persistence of informal work and
entrepreneurship, across a variety of empirical settings, from
within the developed world, the developing world and within
transformation economies within post-socialist spaces. Given its
worldwide, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach and
recent interest in the informal economies by a number of
disciplines and organisations, this book will be of vital reading
to those operating in the fields of: Economics, political economy
and management, Human and economic geography and Economic
anthropology and sociology as well as development studies
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