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Suddenly, an informal exchange rate between the two currencies emerges.
The fact that this informal deal benefits all sides exposes the terrible inefficiency of current fiscal policy (namely, punitive business taxes) and how capital controls magnify it.
Combined with the punitive taxation caused by Europe’s refusal to recognize the unsustainability of Greek public debt, the dual-currency regime produces unforeseen incentives for informal transactions in a country that desperately needs to defeat informality.
Within 4-5 years Hungary may possess a more developed banking industry than neighboring and more affluent Austria, where state ownership and informal government interference remain characteristic in banking.
The best option available to Moria’s refugee children are cramped informal education centers, where high teacher turnover is a serious problem.
And that number may be set to fall: the largest informal education center, run by UNICEF, is set to close in December, because the €30,000 ($34,900) per month needed to operate it cannot be found.
In fact, it is not really an organized market, but only an informal virtual exchange.
Because contracts are linked with each other, one default can trigger an avalanche of broken promises, “[making] it possible to destroy virtually the entire web of formal and informal contracts which the market system requires for its functioning.”
This web of contracts – often taken for granted in mainstream economics, to the extent that it becomes almost invisible – embodies the formal and informal rules embedded in the market system that shape and constrain individual and social behavior.
This means that we should view the economy and society not as rigid hierarchies or mechanical markets, but as networks or webs of life, in which contracts, formal and informal, fulfilled or violated, are the essence of human activity.
The usability of available information is further reduced by the combined effects of innocuous-seeming principles that are popular in informal discussions.
UNEP’s work has helped to invigorate a vibrant informal network involving central banks and other rule-makers and market actors.
TVET is rarely available to workers in small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) or the informal sector, and it receives too little public financing.
Governments must also ensure better access to TVET systems for disadvantaged groups, including children from poor families and rural areas and employees in SMEs and the informal sector.
This informal norm soon built ties of friendship and mutual solidarity.
Last summer, I took an informal poll at a meeting of Wall Street investors to find out whether they would condone the use of torture to prevent a terrorist attack.
Either formal mechanisms are used to dethrone them – as occurred, for example, in the Soviet Union, when the Central Committee forced Nikita Khrushchev out of power in 1964 – or informal mechanisms come into play.
But tight national restrictions do not seem to prevent migration; they only alter the geographical orientation of flows and fuel increases in illegal immigration, thereby inflating the size of the informal economy.
That is more than any other UK media organization, and it doesn’t include informal gatherings, dinner parties, and events surrounding high-level meetings.
Clarifying ultimate responsibility for credit quality and risk would also reduce intermediation costs by eliminating the need to resort to informal channels, such as credit-guarantee and trust companies.
The alternative is leaving hundreds of thousands of children on the streets, languishing in informal settlements with an uncertain future.
Much of the work of global governance will rely on formal and informal networks.
Likewise, since 1967, Jordan has served as an informal buffer state between Israel and the rest of the Arab world.
Indeed, these upheavals may act as informal checks on official power.
Over time, the development of an informal norm of non-use of nuclear weapons changed this.
“Pro-growth is pro-poor” has been the informal slogan of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund for decades, resulting in 35 years of neoliberal economic policies known as the “Washington Consensus.”
To that end, keeping the UK in the EU customs union – by guaranteeing it an active, albeit informal role – is negotiators’ best bet.
To be sure, trade must deliver for all countries and for all people, from factory workers suffering plant closures in Europe or the United States to subsistence farmers trapped in informal economies in Africa and South Asia.
But all political systems must address conflicting interests, and when the process is carried out in informal channels, infighting can soon devolve into a brawl.
The research by the Reinharts and Rogoff is an expansion and generalization of many people’s informal economic thinking, which often compares the present with stories of major past episodes.
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