Done in 2006
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The study finds a positive relationship between the degree of regulation and the incidence of public corruption. As strictness of regulation was not observed to relate to low product quality or a greater degree of environmental degradation, the study contradicts public interest theories of regulation and supports public choice models in that the primary benefactor of regulation appears to be the bureacrats.
Size of the Shadow Economy (As Percentage of GDP)
Bolivia 65.6%, Peru 57.4%, Costa Rica 23.2%, Argentina 21.8%, Chile 18.2%, Thailand 71%, PHILIPPINES 50%, Sri Lanka 40%, Egypt 68%, Nigeria 76%, Morocco 39%, Ukraine 53.7%, Croatia 38.2%, USA 8.8%...
The Informal Workforce and Gender: Percentage of Non-agricultural workforce in the Informal Sector 1991-1997
Philippines, Women 64%, Men 46%
Major Causes: Corruption of Bureaucrats, Lack of access to credit
Saturday, October 4, 2008
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LibraryThing recommendations
http://www.librarything.com/work/1695032
1. The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics by William Easterly
The nature of mass poverty by John Kenneth Galbraith
2. The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits by C. K. Prahalad
Wringing success from failure in late-developing countries : lessons from the field by Joseph F. Stepanek
3. Out of Poverty: and Into Something More Comfortable by John Stackhouse
4. Big business, poor peoples : the impact of transnational corporations in the world's poor by John Madeley
5. Mastering the machine : poverty, aid, and technology by Ian Smillie
6. The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It by Paul Collier
7. God of the Poor by D Hughes
Shortchanged : life and debt in the fringe economy by Howard Karger
Migrant Worker Remittances,Micro-finance and the Informal Economy: Prospects and Issues
http://www.gdrc.org/icm/remittance/shivani.html
Dimensions of the Shadow Economy
by Friedrich Schneider
http://www.independent.org/pdf/tir/tir_05_1_schneider.pdf
Remittances as Development Tool
http://www.iadb.org/europe/files/pubs_and_working_papers/Remittances_Dev_Tool.pdf
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