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Beyond Regulation : The Informal Economy in Latin America / ed. by Victor E. Tokman.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2023]Copyright date: ©1992Description: 1 online resource (295 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781555873189
  • 9781685856359
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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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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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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