Journal of Theoretical Economics, 7(1): 2007. In developing countries, consumers can buy many goods either in formal markets or in informal markets and decide where to purchase based on the product's ...

Informal community-based supply, characterised by abstractions from surface water and shallow wells, is the main water supply source in the urban areas of developing nations. Formal sector supply has ...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/economia.16.2.143 Copy URL ABSTRACT This paper studies the link between credit conditions and formalization in Brazil. Over the last ...

PETALING JAYA: There is good news for the average Malaysian worker: the median monthly wage for the formal sector has risen to RM2,864, according to the latest quarterly report from the Statistics ...

Cambodia’s government is rushing to empower millions of women working in the informal sector and shift them to the formal sector, with all the benefits and protections that come with it. The shift ...

THE global surge in public protests against bad governance and lack of inclusive growth is a timely reminder of the importance of developing strong institutions and enlarging the formal economy to ...

Softening growth in the formal sector is beginning to weigh on overall credit growth, according to a report by HSBC Global Research. The report noted that, after a few years of strong growth, the ...

IS THE informal sector a poison pill to economic development or is it a by-product of stagnation and poverty? Academics who believe in the former typically argue either that entrepreneurs in the ...

Unemployment rates in the Middle East and North Africa have remained above 10 percent over the past decade, the highest in the world. For the young the rates are even more daunting, at a persistent 25 ...

The Fundo Activo de Capital de Risco Angolano, an Angolan venture capital fund that fosters the development of SMEs, is encouraging governments to invest in small businesses to make the most of the ...