This landmark volume brings together leading scholars in the field to investigate recent conceptual shifts, research findings and policy debates on the informal

The author develops a view of the informal sector in developing countries primarily as an unregulated micro-entrepreneurial sector and not as a disadvantaged re

Analyzes informality in Latin America, exploring root causes and reasons for and implications of its growth. This book uses two distinct but complementary lense

This survey assembles recent theoretical and empirical advances in the literature on economic informality and analyzes the causes and costs of informality in de

This collection of essays challenges long-entrenched ideas about the history, nature, and significance of the informal neighborhoods that house the vast majorit