This volume brings together a significant new collection of studies on formality and informality in developing countries. Containing contributions from some of the very best analysts in development studies, the volume is multidisciplinary in nature, with contributions from anthropologists, economists, sociologists, and political scientists.
more nolume brings together a significant new collection of studies on formality and informality in developing countries. Containing contributions from some of the very best analysts in development studies, the volume is multidisciplinary in nature, with contributions from anthropologists, economists, sociologists, and political scientists.
No matter how you divide up the developing world - 'formal-informal',' legal - 'extra-legal' -(my preference)one thing is not debatable: most people are poor, on the outside of the system looking in, and getting angrier every day. The message of this book is its time to stop talking and start designing reforms - based on the informal practices and organizations that poor entrepreneurs already use. I second that motion. If you rebuild the system from the
bottom-up, they will come - with their enterprise, creativity, and piles of potential capital.
