Linking the Formal and Informal Economy: Concepts and Policies

ISBN-13: 9780199204762 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 320 str.

Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis; Ravi Kanbur; Elinor Ostrom

Opis

more nolume brings together a significant new collection of studies on formality and informality in developing countries. Containing contributions from some of the very best analysts in development studies, the volume is multidisciplinary in nature, with contributions from anthropologists, economists, sociologists, and political scientists.

Recenzje

No matter how you divide up the developing world — 'formal-informal',' legal — 'extra-legal' —(my preference)one thing is not debatable: most people are poor, on the outside of the system looking in, and getting angrier every day. The message of this book is its time to stop talking and start designing reforms — based on the informal practices and organizations that poor entrepreneurs already use. I second that motion. If you rebuild the system from the bottom-up, they will come — with their enterprise, creativity, and piles of potential capital.

O autorze

Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis is, since 2002, a research fellow and project director at UNU-WIDER. Previous appointments include IGIDR (Mumbai), the EXIM Bank of India (Bangalore) ICRIER (New Delhi), and as a research consultant for several international organizations. Ravi Kanbur is T.H. Lee Professor of World Affairs, International Professor of Applied Economics and Management, and Professor of Economics at Cornell University, and previously Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick, and Chief Economist for Africa at the World Bank. Elinor Ostrom was Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science at Indiana University. She was also Co-Director, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis and Co-Director, Center for the Study of Institutions, Population and Environmental Change (CIPEC) at Indiana University. She was a member of the Expert Group on Development Issues of the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs.