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With modern manufacturing underdeveloped, many young workers with fewer skills and less education are consigned to the informal sector.
Here, too, the world will need to create informal platforms that supplement traditional multilateralism.
"Operation Clean Hands"--what some are calling the investigations into Khodorkovsky and his associates--will not increase tax revenue, but only spur growth in the informal economy, as businessmen try to conceal their affairs even more completely from the government.
We must also take collective action to reduce the amount of time women spend in unpaid work; to ensure they have access to and control over productive assets like land, credit, insurance, and savings; and to address the restrictive social norms that relegate women to lower-paid or informal work.
Practitioners use a variety of formal and informal empirical methods with varying skill.
There were always suspicions of formal or informal banking cartels, which would agree on conditions and interest rates.
And studies show interest groups use “decent work” policies to create great jobs for a minority, while leaving the rest out, often pushing vulnerable workers back into the informal economy and increasing poverty.
The informal or black market exchange rate determines the value of the kyat according to supply and demand in the marketplace.
According to the informal exchange rate, the kyat’s worth is currently about 1,000 to one against the dollar.
But India’s service sector has been dominated by traditional, low-wage output in informal businesses, such as restaurants and personal services.
The Financial Stability Forum, created after the Asian financial crisis as an informal coordinating body – the United States resisted anything stronger – was renamed the Financial Stability Board.
From formal debates and informal schmoozing with fellow members of the Davos crowd, one gets a sense of who the American establishment favors to win the next presidential election (Hillary Clinton), predictions for the upcoming referendum in Ireland on the European “simplified” treaty (it will be very close), and French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s international image (not good).
In the run-up to the crisis, the US Federal Reserve Board (an informal inflation targeter) was even more committed than the MPC to this orthodox view – so committed, in fact, that it barely allocated any time or resources to analyzing house-price fluctuations.
Argentinean economists estimate that almost half of all workers have either illegal or informal jobs, a staggering percentage.
Over the last few months – on the margins of the Spring Meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, and at the World Education Forum in May – an informal group has been considering a proposal to establish a new global fund for education in emergencies.
In today’s mafia states, key decisions are made through informal mechanisms created by the regime, instead of through formal institutions.
The extent to which this framework is provided will depend on the nature of the political process, on clear rules of the game in the political arena, on the presence of constraints -- formal and informal -- on governments that prevent politicians and bureaucrats from predatory acts.
Three weeks after taking office, Mr Blair will join the EU's leaders at an informal summit at Maastricht.
But only a tiny share of these economies’ labor is employed in productive enterprises, while informal, unproductive firms absorb the rest.
And in Kolkata, India, a Dublin-based startup called Addressing the Unaddressedhas used GPS to provide postal addresses for more than 120,000 slum dwellers in 14 informal communities.
Even though the Pentagon itself wanted to close many of them and use the money elsewhere, no measure could be gotten through the Congress, because military bases qualify as "pork" - the favors for their constituents that help congressmen get re-elected -- and, according to old and sacred informal rules, no congressman will ever vote against pork in a colleague's district.
Similarly, Bangladesh has advanced inclusion by expanding participation in its once-exclusionary system of informal local justice, the shalish.
With the few good jobs reserved for favored groups, a growing pool of educated young workers faced lower-quality jobs in the informal sector.
Not only is it bad economic strategy to criminalize business formation and operation by pushing it underground, the fact is that a lot of businesses simply won’t come into existence, not even in the informal sector.
We should begin to create informal links immediately and then build them into a movement with weight and reach.
Women account for most unpaid work in the informal sector; and, even when they are formally employed, they earn significantly less than comparably educated men in similar jobs.
In poor developing countries, a disproportionate share of women hold temporary, low-paying jobs in the informal sector, with no benefits.
The most important feature of a meso-economic framework is to study the actual web of contracts, formal or informal, in family, corporate, market, civil, and social institutions.
More workers were forced into informal jobs or self-employment, and real wages fell, owing to higher inflation, depreciating currencies, and certain idiosyncratic supply-side shocks.
When productive firms do not grow, the supply of good jobs cannot keep up with demand, forcing workers to take refuge in the informal economy, and the cycle continues.
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