Skip to main content

Lund University Publications

LUND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

The 'informal sector' and the political economy of development

Tanaka, Victor LU (2010) In Public Choice 145(1-2). p.295-317
Abstract
This paper takes an initial step in integrating insights from two sets of literature which have focused on central aspects of development with unfortunate independence. It highlights politically valuable resources, which are identified in the political economy literature, and shows that the informal sector literature provides ample evidence that these resources in general are (i) scarcely available to informal entities, (ii) poorly valued in their possession, and (iii) more often collectively unexploited by them. Overall, there seems to be an important though neglected bias in how the political system in less developed countries formulates, crafts, and implements policy.
Please use this url to cite or link to this publication:
author
organization
publishing date
type
Contribution to journal
publication status
published
subject
keywords
Political economy, Institutions, Development, Formal and informal sector
in
Public Choice
volume
145
issue
1-2
pages
295 - 317
publisher
Springer
external identifiers
  • wos:000281013700017
  • scopus:77955843665
ISSN
0048-5829
DOI
10.1007/s11127-009-9567-z
language
English
LU publication?
yes
id
b00fa22f-3816-4cb1-bab2-fd4244c91ce8 (old id 1673593)
date added to LUP
2016-04-01 13:05:15
date last changed
2022-02-19 02:50:54
@article{b00fa22f-3816-4cb1-bab2-fd4244c91ce8,
  abstract     = {{This paper takes an initial step in integrating insights from two sets of literature which have focused on central aspects of development with unfortunate independence. It highlights politically valuable resources, which are identified in the political economy literature, and shows that the informal sector literature provides ample evidence that these resources in general are (i) scarcely available to informal entities, (ii) poorly valued in their possession, and (iii) more often collectively unexploited by them. Overall, there seems to be an important though neglected bias in how the political system in less developed countries formulates, crafts, and implements policy.}},
  author       = {{Tanaka, Victor}},
  issn         = {{0048-5829}},
  keywords     = {{Political economy; Institutions; Development; Formal and informal sector}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{1-2}},
  pages        = {{295--317}},
  publisher    = {{Springer}},
  series       = {{Public Choice}},
  title        = {{The 'informal sector' and the political economy of development}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11127-009-9567-z}},
  doi          = {{10.1007/s11127-009-9567-z}},
  volume       = {{145}},
  year         = {{2010}},
}