Linking the Formal and Informal Economy: Concepts and Policies (WIDER Studies in Development Economics)

ISBN 10: 0199237298 / ISBN 13: 9780199237296

Published by Oxford University Press, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Linking the Formal and Informal Economy: Concepts and Policies (WIDER Studies in Development Economics)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199237298
• ISBN 13: 9780199237296
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: like_new

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis is a Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER. He is a PhD from the University of Rochester and worked for IGIDR (Mumbai), ICRIER (New Delhi) and The Exim Bank of India. His research interests include international economics, development economics and financial economics. Ravi Kanbur is T.H. Lee Professor of World Affairs, International Professor of Applied Economics and Management, and Professor of Economics at Cornell University, and previously Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick, and Chief Economist for Africa at the World Bank. Elinor Ostrom is Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science at Indiana University. She is also Co-Director, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis and Co-Director, Center for the Study of Institutions, Population and Environmental Change (CIPEC) at Indiana University. She is a member of the Expert Group on Development Issues of the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs.