Informal Economies in Post-Socialist Spaces

1. Introduction
Abel Polese, Jeremy Morris

Part I. Thinking Informality and Development Writ Large and Small

2. Evaluating the Validity of the Contrasting Theoretical Perspectives towards the Informal Economy in Ukraine
Colin C. Williams, Olga Onoshchenko

3. Institutional Transformation and Informality in Azerbaijan and Georgia
Huseyn Aliyev

4. Fighting the Shadows: Lithuania’s Informal Workers and the Financial Crisis
Ida Harboe Knudsen

5. Formal Crutches for Broken Sociality
Aet Annist

Part II. Retheorizing Informality: Power, Culture, Kinship and History

6. Field Notes on Informality’s Culture of Ubiquity: Recognition and Symbolic Power within Informal Economic Practices in Kosovo
Anna Danielsson

7. The Importance of Having štela: Reproduction of Informality in the Democratization Sector in Bosnia
Karla Koutkova

8. Perceptions vs. Practices: Nepotism in Small Businesses in Bulgaria
Tanya Chavdarova

9. The Importance of Personalized Relationships in Post-Socialist Rural Bulgaria: Informality of New Capitalist Entrepreneurs
Christian Giordano

Part III. Informal Public Sectors and Welfare: State Intervention or Withdrawal?

10. Informal Payments for Healthcare Services in Lithuania and Ukraine
Tetiana Stepurko, Milena Pavlova, Irena Gryga, Liubove Murauskiene, Wim Groot

11. Nuclear Borders: Informally Negotiating the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
Thom Davies

12. Governing Informal Payments in Healthcare: Lessons from China
Jingqing Yang

13. Informal Economic Practices within the Kyrgyz Police (militsiia)
Liam O’Shea

14. Conclusion
Jeremy Morris, Abel Polese

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