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The Other Path: the Invisible Revolution in the Third World
Francisco Pineda
- Vol. 25, Iss: 6, pp 89-92
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Urban Informality: Toward an Epistemology of Planning
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on urban informality to highlight the challenges of dealing with the "unplannable" exceptions to the order of formal urbanization and argue that planners must learn to work with this state of exception.
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Manufacturing Firms in Developing Countries: How Well Do They Do, and Why?
James Tybout,James Tybout +1 more
TL;DR: Tybout et al. as mentioned in this paper found that protection increases firms' price-cost margins and reduces average efficiency levels at the margin, which suggests that the general trend toward trade liberalization has yielded greater benefits than the traditional gains from specialization.
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Can Labour Regulation Hinder Economic Performance? Evidence from India
Timothy Besley,Robin Burgess +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate whether the industrial relations climate in Indian States has affected the pattern of manufacturing growth in the period 1958-92 and show that pro-worker amendments to the Industrial Disputes Act are associated with lowered investment, employment, productivity and output in registered manufacturing.
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The Unofficial Economy and Economic Development
Rafael La Porta,Andrei Shleifer +1 more
TL;DR: The authors found that informal firms are small and extremely unproductive compared with even the small formal firms in the sample, and especially relative to the larger formal firms, which supports the dual economy theory of development, in which growth comes about from the creation of highly productive formal firms.
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Defining and Estimating Underground and Informal Economies: The New Institional Economics Approach
TL;DR: In this paper, a taxonomy of underground economies is elaborated based on the new institutional approach to economic development, which distinguishes illegal, unreported, unrecorded and informal economies and examines the conceptual and empirical linkages among them.
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Urban Informality: Toward an Epistemology of Planning
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on urban informality to highlight the challenges of dealing with the "unplannable" exceptions to the order of formal urbanization and argue that planners must learn to work with this state of exception.
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Can Labor Regulation Hinder Economic Performance? Evidence from India
Timothy Besley,Robin Burgess +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate whether the industrial relations climate in Indian states has affected the pattern of manufacturing growth in the period 1958-92 and show that pro-worker ammendments to the Industrial Disputes Act are associated with lowered investment, employment, productivity and output in registered manufacturing.
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Oligarchic versus democratic societies
TL;DR: The authors developed a model to analyze economic performance under different political regimes and found that when taxes in democracy are high and the distortions caused by entry barriers are low, an oligarchic society achieves greater efficiency.
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Comparative Economic Organization—Within and Between Countries
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the implications of going beyond transaction cost theory's implicit focus on domestic investors to include multinational actors and explore the discriminating alignment between the level of hazards (contractual and/or political) and the mode of governance.
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Formal Measures of the Informal-Sector Wage Gap in Mexico, El Salvador, and Peru*
TL;DR: This paper found that the characteristics of informal workers are similar across countries, and when they control for these personal characteristics, they find a significant wage premium associated with formal employment in El Salvador and Peru but a premium associated to work in the informal sector in Mexico.