The Informal Economy: Exploring Drivers and Practices

Horodnic, Ioana A, Rodgers, Peter, Williams, Colin and Momtazian, Legha ORCID: 0000-0001-8159-1663, eds. (2017) The Informal Economy: Exploring Drivers and Practices. Routledge Studies in Entrepreneurship . Routledge, Abingdon. ISBN 9781138068377

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Abstract

During much of the twentieth century, informal employment and entrepreneurship was commonly depicted as a residue from a previous era. Its continuing presence was seen to be a sign of "backwardness" whilst the formal economy represented "progress". In recent decades, however, numerous studies have revealed not only that informal employment is extensive and persistent but also that it is growing relative to formal employment in many populations. Whilst in the developing world, the informal economy is often found to be the mainstream economy, nevertheless, in the developed world too, informality is currently still estimated to account for notable per cent of GDP. The Informal Economy: Exploring Drivers and Practices intends to engage with these issues, providing a much-need ‘contextualised’ approach to explain the persistence and growth of forms of informal economic practices and entrepreneurial activities in the twenty-first century. Using a diverse range of empirical case studies from Europe, Africa, North Africa and Asia, this book unpacks the different varieties of forms of informal work and entrepreneurship and provides a critical analysis of existing theorisations used to explain such phenomena. This book’s aim is to examine the nature and persistence of informal work and entrepreneurship, across a variety of empirical settings, from within the developed world, the developing world and within transformation economies within post-socialist spaces. Given its worldwide, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach and recent interest in the informal economies by a number of disciplines and organisations, this book will be of vital reading to those operating in the fields of: Economics, political economy and management, Human and economic geography and Economic anthropology and sociology as well as development studies

Item Type:	Book
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory
Divisions:	Schools and Research Institutes > School of Business
Research Priority Areas:	Applied Business & Technology
Depositing User:	Rhiannon Goodland
Date Deposited:	30 Nov 2023 15:09
Last Modified:	30 Nov 2023 15:09
URI:	https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/13519

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