1. Informality Revisited
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Maloney, William F.
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ECONOMICS , *SOCIOLOGY , *ANTHROPOLOGY , *SMALL business - Abstract
The paper draws on recent evidence––economic, sociological and anthropological––from Latin America to forward a view of the informal sector in developing countries primarily as an unregulated microentrepreneurial sector and not as a disadvantaged residual of segmented labor markets. It offers alternative explanations for many of the characteristics of the sector customarily regarded as evidence of its inferiority. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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- 2004
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