...Toan Khanh Tran Pham Purpose In pursuit of good governance and better allocation of resources, corruption and informal economy are of interest to policymakers and citizens alike. The impacts of military spending on the informal economy are scant. Moreover, the effects of an external factor...

... Publishing Limited 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Informal economy Envelope wages Under-declared employment Marginalization Institutional theory Public policy Europe To achieve this, the next section reviews the existent literature on quasi-formal...

...Roberto Dell'Anno; Omobola Adu Purpose This paper contributes to the literature concerning the Nigerian informal economy (IE) by estimating its size from 1991 to 2017 and identifying the major causes. Design/methodology/approach A structural equation approach in the form of the multiple...

... 08 2016 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Nathanael Ojong can be contacted at: nojong@tyndale.ca Keith Hart’s (1973) seminal work in Accra, Ghana first brought attention to the informal economy. The study noted...

...Abdoulie Sallah Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate critically the narrative that the informal economy in Africa has no place within the framework of economic development. Considered as a sign of “backwardness”, “traditionalism” and “underdevelopment”, the informal economy in Africa...

...Colin C Williams; Ioana Alexandra Horodnic Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a new way of explaining participation in the informal economy as resulting from the asymmetry between the codified laws and regulations of a society’s formal institutions (government morality...

.... Professor Colin C. Williams can be contacted at: C.C.Williams@sheffield.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Education Corruption Ukraine Informal economy Crime As Table I reveals, those receiving help with regard to educational services had in 23 per cent of cases...

...Basak Kus Purpose – The informal economy has expanded across developing countries during the last decades. Focussing on the Turkish case, the purpose of this paper is to examine the role of neoliberal reforms in this development. The author argues that neoliberal reforms produced a double-edged...