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As it stands, a lack of confidence in institutions is not only discouraging long-term investment; it is also driving roughly half of Latin America’s small-business owners to operate in the informal economy, thereby avoiding laws and taxes they believe will applied unfairly.
As a result, any more Russian efforts to establish even informal suzerainty over the Soviet successor states are, following the dismemberment of Georgia, likely to meet Chinese resistance.
India’s nonmilitary options to force a Chinese withdrawal from Depsang range from diplomatic (suspension of all official visits or reconsideration of its recognition of Tibet as part of China) to economic (an informal boycott of Chinese goods, just as China has hurt Japan through a nonofficial boycott of Japanese-made products).
It is taught in formal and informal school settings worldwide.
And, in its latest report, Global Financial Integrity ranked Malaysia second in the world for illicit capital movements, reflecting years of outflows from a massive informal economy tied to corruption.
A possible counterargument is that Greece has a large informal economy, so its actual GDP is larger than the official figure.
But informal output is of little use for debt service if it cannot be taxed.
They earn about three-quarters as much as men in the same occupations, and are over-represented in informal, temporary, and low-productivity jobs.
Nonetheless, China's stake in the outcome of the current crisis is big enough to make it a party to a wide range of exchanges, formal and informal, bilateral and multilateral--all with the objective of promoting change without upheaval on the Korean peninsula.
First, what determines economic performance is the mix of “formal rules, informal norms, and enforcement characteristics.”
Here, it is important to note that whereas formal rules can be altered quickly, informal cultural norms are difficult to change in the short run.
And legal, regulated options for safeguarding savings and accessing credit would reduce reliance on the black market or the informal economy, where financial exploitation flourishes.
For some, the informal sector includes all businesses that have not been registered with the authorities.
Others claim that tax evasion creates an unfair advantage for informal firms, or that family-wide health care gives households no incentive to have more than one member pay social-security taxes.
For still others, programs that target the informal sector distort the playing field.
The informal sector is mostly a consequence of the fact that people are disconnected from modern production networks – an inefficiency that will not be resolved simply by reducing the cost of registering a business or forcing small firms to pay taxes.
This is why informal groupings like the G7 and the G20 remain essential: they provide the necessary political impetus.
Instead, farmers access property through informal agreements with a chief or a landowner.
Like quotas on manufactured products, these new quotas are generating a dual-price allocation system, in which SOEs can borrow at significantly lower interest rates than small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs), which must rely on the informal market at interest rates as high as 2% monthly.
The extremists propagating this violence have networks of outreach to young people and know the power of education, whether formal or informal.
He deems the proponents of civil society “elitists” who refuse to be tested at the ballot box and who try to influence politics through informal mechanisms.
Minimum wage standards endorsed by the International Labor Organization (ILO), and adopted by many industries around the world, remain either unenforced in the agriculture sector or do not extend to informal farm workers.
Most of the 54 million Nigerian girls and women who live and work in rural areas are forced into insecure employment in the informal economy.
It should also gradually reduce the plethora of payroll levies that currently add about 50% on average to labor costs, hindering competitiveness and creating a significant incentive to informal employment.
First, they required fiscal discipline in the member states, which was true under the gold standard, with its informal norm of balanced budgets.
Private actors also have informal incentives to curry favor with China’s rulers by behaving in CPC-friendly ways.
Large swaths of informal settlements have emerged in vacant inner-city districts and suburban peripheries, compromising environmental conditions, public health, and personal safety.
Contrary to conspiracy theories, the Commission has little power; but, like other informal channels of “track two” diplomacy, it allows private citizens to explore ways to manage thorny issues.
started by a Microsoft researcher in India to bring better job opportunities to the country’s informal sector by connecting employers and job seekers via the Web, mobile apps, SMS, and voice services.
Moreover, a large proportion of women in the region are employed in the informal sector.
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