The Impact of the Islamic System on Economic and Social Factors: A Macroeconomic Uncertainty Context by Mohamed Sadok Gassouma, Adel Benhamed

“…We examine the effects of Islamicity and democracy on uncertainty, informal economy, corruption, and economic growth using a vector autoregression (VAR) model. …”
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Negotiating a living: working children in Kolkata by Kumar, T

“…<p>The majority of children, involved in both waged and unwaged work exist beyond the control and comprehension of national and international regulation, within the informal economy. Research has shown that the informal economy, contrary to general perception, is not a sphere of unregulated activity, but rather, operates through alternative structures and techniques of power. …”

My Own Private Public Library by Julia Rone

“…These grass-roots digital libraries can be understood best through an analysis of the dichotomies between formal and informal economy, law and ethics, commercial and non-commercial interest, bricolage and engineering. …”
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Spatial integration of urban informality in Jakarta by Ruth Dea Juwita, Yohanes Basuki Dwisusanto

“…This was achieved through the qualitative method which involves the application of a phenomenological paradigm by participating in the street vending and informal economy on Thamrin 10, Jalan H. Agus Salim, and Jalan Percetakan Negara streets in Jakarta. …”
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Strengthening informal supply chains : the case of recycling in Bandung, Indonesia by Tuori, Michael A. (Michael Aaron)

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Lifting of International Sanctions and the Shadow Economy in Iran—A View from Outer Space by Mohammad Reza Farzanegan, Sven Fischer

“…Previous studies have shown that sanctions can negatively affect the shadow (or informal) economy and may even have a larger impact on the informal economy than on the formal economy. …”
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Informal Market in Urban Setting in India: A Sociological Review by Aayushi VERMA, Pawan KUMAR MISRA

“…These informal Markets give a special topic of sociological examination with regards to the informal economy. This paper intends to sociologically contextualize street vendors and weekly markets in the triangle shaped by the urban space, informal economy and state, and see how informal ness is conjured in formal metropolitan circle. …”
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“Sharing economy” versus “informal sector”: Jakarta’s motorbike taxi industry in turmoil by Mechthild von Vacano

“…It challenges the notion of “informal economy” as an umbrella concept for such two different business models.…”
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Fiscal Digitalization- The Antidote of Creative Accounting by Alin Sergiu Nițu, Aurelian Constantin, Marcel Constantin

“…The current context, national and international, characterized by a broad economic crisis, reveals more than ever the need for special attention to creative accounting in terms of increasing the role of digitalization in its maintenance, identification and analysis of manifestations in connection with the informal economy. Creative accounting is the product of economic realities that are manifested in a maneuvering range between tax optimization and tax fraud and digitization can amplify, through its resources of creativity and novelty, the negative impact on the informal economy. …”
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Economia Informal em Rede: trocas económicas e complexidade social by Marzia Grassi

“…Based on the empirical realities of Cape Verde and some of its Diasporas, this article explores, to a certain extent, the heuristic limitations of certain notions suggested by the mainstream of the neoliberal economy model concerning the so called «informal economy» in Africa. The text deals with different dimensions, spaces and protagonists of practices of the informal economic networks. …”
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ENABLING FACTORS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF WASTE PICKERS: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW by Rinie Schenck, Derek Blaauw, Kotie Viljoen

“…The paper reports on a systematic review research process to determine the enabling factors for waste pickers to operate in the informal economy in South Africa. Twenty-eight South African journal articles, theses and position and policy papers were sourced and appraised. …”
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Marquages territoriaux et catégories sociales dans l’espace ultramarin français by Frédéric Piantoni

“…They perceive themselves in the territorial discontinuities, in the emergence of multiculturalisms and in the growth of an informal economy, wich are outside the national law and outside the republican model. …”
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Introdução by Ana Bénard da Costa, Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues

“…Besides including diverse subjects related to the main theme – development, informal economy, credit, management, or new technologies – it also contains a set of texts resulting from the research carried out in other entrepreneurial contexts, like China or Brazil. …”
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El Príncipe : de la fiction d’une série à la réalité d’un quartier by Alicia Fernández García

“…This contribution is interested with the image that the serie El Príncipe gives of the city of Ceuta, a Spanish enclave in Morocco, which is ravaged by unemployment, inequalities and the size of the informal economy, in addition with the scourge of jihadism since a few years. …”
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Travailleurs des plateformes numériques de services : quelles garanties sociales ? by Jean-Michel Servais

“…The problematic appears to have some similarities with the one, raised for many years, of other workers whose legal status whether as employees or self-employed remains also unclear, including those in the informal economy. The analysis of these experiences informs the present discussion on the guarantees to be offered to the persons studied here, on the possibilities offered by the comparison, but also on their limits. …”
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Shadow Economy in the Context of Crisis of Government Administration of Economy Теневая экономика в контексте кризиса государственного управления экономикой... by Ivanov Yuriy. B.

“…Based approach to the informal economy as crisis form of governance that combines the destructive and deformation processes with the processes of reformatting the socioeconomic structure, inherent factor of which are series of mutated hybrid economic forms.…”
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Social Hierarchies, Economic Inequalities and Interpersonal Relationships: An Overview from India by Sony Pellissery

“…Social identity deeply penetrates to the huge informal economy that permeates in India. Thus, caught in the web of relationships even at market sphere, the poor people come together to fight, protest and to collaborate for their own well-being.…”
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Using Tax Wedge by Abbas Seyyedi Wiyand, Sayyed Ebrahim Husseiny nasab

“…This study analyzes the relationship between the household's demand for formal services and their close substitutes in the informal economy (including do-it-yourself activities). …”
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The Fragility of the Labour Corridors to Costa Rica and the United States: Precarious Migrant Workers in Central America by Abelardo Morales-Gamboa

“…Keywords: Central America; migrant workers; labour markets; informal economy; labour corridors…”
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Conceptualising globalisation: fossil energy, global finance and the labour market by Elmar Altvater

“…This is one of the reasons why the ‘informal economy’ is growing. An exit exists: from a fossil energy regime to the use of renewable energy and from informal and often precarious forms of labour to solidaristic and cooperative ways to organise production.…”
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