The Informal Economy in Global Perspective

Varieties of Governance
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-40930-6
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 568 g

Reihe: International Political Economy Series

This book critically engages with how formal and informal mechanisms of governance are used across the world. Specifically, it analyzes how the governance mechanisms of formal institutions are questioned, challenged and renegotiated through informal institutions. Whilst there is an emerging body of scholarship focusing on informal practices, this is scattered across a number of disciplines. This edited collection, by contrast, fosters a dialogue on these issues, moving away from monodisciplinary and normative methodologies that view informal institutions and practices simply as temporary economic phenomena. In doing so, the authors provide a wider understanding of how governance is composed of both the formal and the informal, which complement each other but are also constantly in competition. This novel approach will appeal to social scientists, economists, policy-makers, practitioners, and anyone else willing to widen their understanding of how governance works.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Polese, Abel

Bejakovic, Predrag

Williams, Colin C.

Horodnic, Ioana A.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Abel Polese, Colin Williams, Ioana A. Horodnic and Predrag Bejakovic.- Part I. Measuring the Informal Economy.- Chapter 1. Less is more or more is less? Building a composite index of the Romanian shadow economy; Adriana AnaMaria Davidescu.- Chapter 2. Informal Employment and Earnings Determination in Ukraine; Oksana Nezhyvenko and Philippe Adair.- Chapter 3. The Nature and Extent of the Informal Economy in Post-Crisis Ukraine; Ivan Miroshnychenko.- Chapter 4. Exploring the spread of undeclared work through basic agent-based models; Rodica Ianole and Elena Druica.- Chapter 5. Estimating the size of Croatian shadow economy: a labour approach; Sabina Hodzic.- Chapter 6. Post-socialist informality and organizational ethnography; Marius Wamsiedel.- Part II. The Loci and the Dynamics of the Informal Economy.- Chapter 7. Rethinking the diverse economy: the articulation and circulation of diverse indigenous and antipodean capitalist economies in Aotearoa, New Zealand; Stephen FitzHerbert.- Chapter 8. Enterprising self in rural Poland – formal and informal economic practices among former Cooperative workers; Anna Sznajder.- Chapter 9. What Happens when De Soto’s Dreams Come True? A Case of Bazaar Traders and Illegal Street Vendors; Lela Rekhviashvili.- Chapter 10. Informal economic activities in post-socialist rural areas – conceptual thoughts inspired by empirical work in Bulgaria; Diana Traikova.- Chapter 11. Fiskalizacija and informality in rural Istrian business communities: business values confronting a bureaucratizing state; Robin Smith.- Chapter 12. Explaining the informal economy in post-communist societies: a study of the asymmetry between formal and informal institutions in Romania; Colin C. Williams.- Chapter 13. Violent Pressure on Business and the Size of the Informal Economy: Evidence from Russian Regions; Michael Rochlitz.- Chapter 14. Bridging policies and practices: Lessons from non-formal urban practices in Egypt; MennatuAllah Hendawy.- Chapter 15. Revisiting The Informal Economy in Africa; Travesties, Rhetorics and Realities; Abdoulie Sallah.- Chapter 16. Never ending story of brifts in health care in Ukraine… but does one part of the story start at the medical university?; Tetiana Stepurko, Anna Korobchuk and Maksym Yakovlyev.

Über Autor(innen)

Abel Polese is Senior Researcher at Tallinn University and Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia.
Colin C. Williams is Professor of Public Policy at the University of Sheffield, UK.
Ioana A. Horodnic is Assistant Professor at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Ia?i, Romania.

Predrag Bejakovic is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Public Finance, Croatia.