Worldwide there is a growth in the numbers of people working in the informal economy: either as self-employed in unregistered enterprises or as wage workers in unprotected jobs. Despite earlier predictions to the contrary, it is now widely recognized that the informal economy is a permanent phenomenon, integrally linked to modern capitalist development and to global integration. Although the relationship between the informal economy, the formal economy, and the formal regulatory environment are complex, it is now also widely recognized that informal enterprises face different constraints - and, arguably, greater constraints - to business development than formal enterprises face: more so informal enterprises run by women.
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Chen, Marty Jhabvala, Renana Nanavaty, Reema
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Document Date
2003/09/04
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Document Type
Working Paper
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Report Number
31356
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1
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1
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2010/07/01
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Doc Name
The investment climate for female informal businesses: a case study from urban and rural India
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Keywords
street vendor;Cost of Doing Business;Informal Economy;local school;access to new technology;wholesale market;informal enterprise;place of work;remote rural area;vegetable and fruit;price of good;trade union;flow of traffic;local government official;cost of transport;
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Chen, Marty Jhabvala, Renana Nanavaty, Reema
The investment climate for female informal businesses: a case study from urban and rural India (English). World Development Report background papers ; 2005 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/172161468770966778/The-investment-climate-for-female-informal-businesses-a-case-study-from-urban-and-rural-India