The informal sector in francophone Africa : firm size, productivity and institutions / Nancy Benjamin and Ahmadou Aly Mbaye ; with Ibrahima Thione Diop ... [and others].

By:

Benjamin, Nancy C, 1956-

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Material type: Text

TextSeries: World Bank e-LibraryPublisher: Washington, D.C. : World Bank, 2012Description: pages cmContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780821395370
9780821395424 (electronic)

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Additional physical formats: Print Version:DDC classification:

338.70966 23

LOC classification:

HD2346.A58 B46 2012

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Contents:

Outline: Characteristics of informal businesses in West Africa -- Institutional, regulatory and socio-cultural environment -- Costs and benefits of informality: productivity, living standards, and tax revenue -- Main conclusions and recommendations -- Chapter 1. The informal sector in West Africa: definition -- Chapter 2. Data sources and methods -- Chapter 3. The informal sector in west Africa: overview of economic significance and welfare effects -- Chapter 4. Large informal firms in West Africa -- Chapter 5. Characteristics of the informal sector: findings from our surveys -- Chapter 6. The institutional environment of the informal sector in West Africa -- Chapter 7. Informality and productivity -- Chapter 8. Informal trading networks in West Africa: the Mourides of Senegal/Gambia and the Yoruba of Benin/Nigeria -- Chapter 9. Government policies, smuggling and the informal sector.

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