• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Beyond Regulation : The Informal Economy in Latin America
  • Contains: Frontmatter
    Contents
    Preface
    PART 1 SYNTHESIS AND CONCLUSIONS
    1 The Informal Sector in Latin America: From Underground to Legality
    PART 2 INFORMALITY AND ILLEGALITY
    2 Informality and Illegality, a False Identity: The Case of Bolivia
    3 Illegality in the Urban Informal Sector of Mexico City
    PART 3 THE COST OF LEGALITY
    4 Barriers to Legality and Their Costs for the Informal Sector
    5 Real Versus Ideal and the Brazilian Jeitinho: A Study of Microenterprise Registry Under the New Microenterprise Statute
    6 The Costs of Becoming Legal for Informal Firms: The Case of Venezuela
    PART 4 REGULATION AND INFORMALITY
    7 Protection for the Informal Sector in Latin America and the Caribbean by Social Security or Alternative Means
    8 The Taxi Market in Chile: Regulation and Liberalization Policies, 1978-1987
    9 Consequences of the Legal and Regulatory Framework in Peru's Taxi Market
    Bibliography
    Index
    About the Book and the Editor
  • Contributor: Cartaya, Vanessa [Contributor]; Casanovas, Roberto [Contributor]; Chavez, Eliana [Contributor]; Elizondo, Néstor [Contributor]; Lagos, Ricardo A. [Contributor]; Looye, Johanna W. [Contributor]; Mesa-Lago, Carmelo [Contributor]; Schkolnik, Mariana [Contributor]; Tokman, Victor E [Editor]; Tokman, Victor E. [Contributor]
  • Published: Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2023
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (295 p.)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1515/9781685856359
  • ISBN: 9781685856359
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  • Keywords: POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American
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  • Footnote: In English
  • Description: The authors argue that the costs to the informal sectors of Latin American economies imposed by legal and constitutional constraints are not as great as is typically claimed
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