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"The informal economy plays a predominant role in developing countries and is a domain that remains largely ignored by researchers, and is neglected and often negatively perceived by public policies. A better understanding of how their economies work thus implies a better understanding of the informal economy. This book takes a fresh look at research in this domain and covers Asia, Africa and Latin America. One key message stands out in this book is that the principal characteristics of the informal economy are relatively close in all developing countries, with highly precarious contracts and mediocre salaries and working conditions. This does not exclude variations depending on the salary levels of each country, as well as the existence of great heterogeneity within each country. In so far as the informal economy is condemned to continue, even in emerging countries, the defining of support policies constitutes a major development challenge. This book contains a selection of papers presented during an international conference organised in May 2010 in Hanoi, Vietnam by the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences and the Institut de Recherche pour le Dloppement, with the support of the Agence Franaise de Dloppement and several international organisations: the World Bank, the International Labour Organisation, the United Nations development programme and the Department for International Development"--
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Part 1. 1. Labor Informality and Poverty in Latin America. The Case of Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru 2. Working in the Informal Sector: A Free Choice or an Obligation? An Analysis of Job Satisfaction in Vietnam 3. Intergenerational Transmission of Self-Employed Atatus in the Informal Sector: A Constrained Choice or better Income Prospects? Evidence from Seven West-African Countries 4. Integration of Formal and Informal Sectors in Craft Villages of the Red River Delta (Vietnam) 5. Social Insurance and Informal Economy in Vietnam: The Challenge of an Universal Coverage Part 2. 6. Efficiency of Informal Production Units and its Determinants: Applying the Quantile Regression Method in the Case of Antananarivo 7. Estimating the Returns to Education in the Informal Sector : The Case of Cameroon 8. Does Corruption Matter for Informal Sector Economic Performance? Microdata Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa 9. Does forced Solidarity Hamper Entrepreneurial Activity? Evidence from Seven West-African Countries 10. The Political Economy of Micro Entrepreneurship: Why Does Microcredit Fail to Promote Self-Employment in Rural South-India? Part 3. 11. Informal versus Formal: A Panel Data Analysis of Earnings Gaps in Madagascar 12. Do limits exist to informality growth in South America? A preliminary exploration 13. Long term dynamic of the Labour market in Thailand: Transitions between the Formal and Informal Sectors 14. Dynamics of Informal Microenterprises and Poverty in Peru: A Panel Approach 15. Informality, Crisis and Public Policies in Vietnam
A propos de l'auteur
Jean-Pierre Cling, economist, Ministry of Foreign affairs, Paris, and associate member of DIAL (mixed research unit IRD/University Paris Dauphine), Paris, France.
Stéphane Lagrée, coordinator of the bureau for francophone cooperation, Vietnam Academy of Social Science, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Mireille Razafindrakoto, senior researchfellow at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) and a member of DIAL (mixed research unit IRD/ University of Paris Dauphine), Paris, France.
François Roubaud, senior research fellow at the IRD and a member of DIAL, Paris, France.
