The Informal Economy in Global Perspective

1. Introduction: Informal Economies as Varieties of Governance
Abel Polese, Colin C. Williams, Ioana A. Horodnic, Predrag Bejakovic

2. Why Read Informality in a Substantivist Manner? On the Embeddedness of the Soviet Second Economy
Lela Rekhviashvili

3. Informal Economy: The Invisible Hand of Government
Abbas Khandan

4. Estimating the Size of the Croatian Shadow Economy: A Labour Approach
Sabina Hodzic

5. Informal Employment and Earnings Determination in Ukraine
Oksana Nezhyvenko, Philippe Adair

6. Approaching Informality: Rear-Mirror Methodology and Ethnographic Inquiry
Marius Wamsiedel

7. Explaining the Informal Economy in Post-Communist Societies: A Study of the Asymmetry Between Formal and Informal Institutions in Romania
Colin C. Williams, Ioana A. Horodnic

8. Post-Socialist Informality Rural Style: Impressions from Bulgaria
Diana Traikova

9. Exploring the Practice of Making Informal Payments in the Health Sector: Some Lessons from Greece
Adrian V. Horodnic, Colin C. Williams, Abel Polese, Adriana Zait, Liviu Oprea

10. Violent Pressure on Business and the Size of the Informal Economy: Evidence from Russian Regions
Michael Rochlitz

11. Labor Informality in Mexico: An Indicator Analysis
Rogelio Varela Llamas, Ramón A. Castillo Ponce, Juan Manuel Ocegueda Hernández

12. The Interplay Between Formal and Informal Firms and Its Implications on Jobs in Francophone Africa: Case Studies of Senegal and Benin
Ahmadou Aly Mbaye, Nancy Claire Benjamin, Fatou Gueye

13. Governing Informal Payments by Market in the Chinese Healthcare System
Jingqing Yang

14. Social Mechanisms of the Counterpublic Sphere: A Case of a Coffee Farmers’ Cooperative in LAO PDR
Arihiro Minoo

15. Formalisation of Entrepreneurship in the Informal Economy in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Role of Formal Institutions: An Analysis of Ghana’s Experience
Kwame Adom

16. Evidence on Corruption in Public Procurements in Healthcare and the Implications for Policy
Julia Schipperges, Milena Pavlova, Tetiana Stepurko, Paul Vincke, Wim Groot

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