Competing Perspectives on the Latin American Informal Sector

Portes, Alejandro; Schauffler, Richard

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“…There is documentation in certain contexts that there are micro-producers capable of producing with modern technology and capital accumulation. However the existence of this type is exceptional in Latin America [Portes and Schauffler, (1993)]. These points show that the informal sector is heterogenous and while we do think that they are very important in characterizing the informal sector realistically, we also believe that the simple model we present here captures the main intuition behind income redistribution when there is an informal sector present.…”

Section: The Urban Informal Sectormentioning

confidence: 84%

“…6 For evidence on Latin America, see Loayza (1994), Portes and Schauffler (1993).On average, the informal sector in Latin America accounted for about a quarter of urban jobs in 1990 varying from 20 to over 50 percent across different Latin countries. During the same year in sub-Saharan Africa, the share of urban labor force in the informal sector was estimated to be around 61 percent and it showed little variation across countries.…”

Section: The Urban Informal Sectormentioning

confidence: 99%

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On the political economy of the informal sector and income redistribution

Hatipoglu¹,

Ozbek

2010

Eur J Law Econ

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In this paper we analyze a general equilibrium model in which agents choose to be employed in formal or in the informal sector. The formal sector is taxed to provide income subsidies and the level of redistribution is determined endogenously through majority voting. We explore how the demand for redistribution determined by majority voting interacts with the incentive to work in the untaxed informal market. We also investigate how different levels of the informal sector wage can explain simul-

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Section: The Urban Informal Sectormentioning

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Section: The Urban Informal Sectormentioning

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On the political economy of the informal sector and income redistribution

Hatipoglu¹,

Ozbek

2010

Eur J Law Econ

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“…Ini adalah kerana hal ini telah membantu dalam menyerap banyak tenaga kerja (Richardson, 1984) sebagai contohnya penyerapan tenaga di Amerika Latin pada sektor tidak formal mencapai angka 31% (Portes & Schauffer, 1993). Sementara itu, pada tahun 1980 angkatan kerja di Indonesia yang bekerja di sektor tidak formal mencapai kira-kira 80% dan kemudian mengalami penurunan menjadi 68,8% pada tahun 1985 dan pada tahun 1990 turun kembali menjadi 63% (Ever & Mehmet, 1994 Berdasarkan huraian di atas, maka penulis tertarik untuk meneliti tentang pelaksanaan dasar dalam penyusunan Pedagang Kaki Lima khususnya di sekitar kawasan Alun-alun Kota Bandung.…”

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Implementation of Street Vendors Arrangement Policy in Indonesia: A Case Study of Bandung Square

Anggara

2015

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The street vendors around the Bandung square (Alun-Alun) have become a great problem particularly in causing traffic congestion and damaging the beauty of the city. Bandung square is known as a center of activity for the local community and has become a favourite destination for the residents. As such, the government intends to arrange and relocate them to Gedebage market. The purpose of this study is to describe the policy implementation of the street vendor arrangement and the constraints faced in implementing the policy. This research uses descriptive-qualitative approach. It also uses the observation and documentation method. Finally, the result shows that the policy implementation of the street vendors at Bandung square is unuccesful yet. Among the reasons is that most of them considered that Gedebage is not suitable for trading, so that they go back to trade in the area of Bandung square. Keywords: policy implementation, street vendor arrangement AbstrakPedagang kaki lima yang berada di sekitar alun-alun Kota Bandung telah menjadi punca kesesakan lalu lintas dan mengganggu keindahan bandar. Alun-alun kota Bandung merupakan pusat kegiatan masyarakat dan destinasi kegemaran bagi warga kota. Oleh kerana itu, Pemerintah Kota Bandung bermaksud untuk menata dan sekaligus memindahkan mereka ke satu tempat, yakni Pasar Gedebage. Penyelidikan ini bertujuan untuk menerangkan

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“…The Regional Employment Program of the International Labor Organization for Latin America (PREALC) rapidly adopted the idea of the informal enterprise as linked to immediate livelihood needs, different from the capitalist enterprise and strategies of accumulation (Portes and Schauffler 1993). Hernando de Soto (1989) famously broke with the idea that informal activities are equated with economies at the poverty level, but immediately introduced another antagonism, that between state regulation and informality.…”

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Place-Based (In)formalization: A Bolivian Marketplace for Consumer Electronics and Global Brands

Müller¹

2022

Lat. American Res. Rev.

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Trade in consumer electronics and household appliances in Bolivia operates mainly from popular marketplaces. Multinational corporations enter these once informal, now enhanced economies. This article analyses the expansion of global brands into urban street markets, together with the local branding of electronics and the advancement of popular traders along transnational commodity chains. I argue that these socio-spatial transitions offer a counterintuitive articulation between the informal and the formal. Looking at specific localities along the commodity chain from East Asia to Chile and Bolivia, one sees not mere formalization of informal economies as often expected nor a rampant informalization as attributed to current economic globalization, but piecemeal formalization of traders as much as a partial informalization of all actors involved.En Bolivia, la venta de equipos electrónicos se realiza principalmente en mercados populares. Empresas transnacionales están operando en esos mismos lugares. Este artículo analiza la expansión de marcas globales en el comercio popular y la creación de marcas locales al mismo tiempo que el avance de comerciantes a lo largo de cadenas de acopio transnacionales. Mi argumento es que esas transiciones económico-espaciales marcan una articulación contraintuitiva entre lo informal y lo formal. Enfocando localidades específicas a lo largo de la cadena comercial desde el Este de Asia hacia Chile y Bolivia, no se observa una mera formalización de la economía informal como muchas veces esperada ni una informalización total atribuida a procesos actuales de globalización, sino una formalización incompleta de comerciantes y una informalización parcial de todos los actores involucrados.

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Competing Perspectives on the Latin American Informal Sector

Cited by 286 publications

References 15 publications

On the political economy of the informal sector and income redistribution

On the political economy of the informal sector and income redistribution

Implementation of Street Vendors Arrangement Policy in Indonesia: A Case Study of Bandung Square

Place-Based (In)formalization: A Bolivian Marketplace for Consumer Electronics and Global Brands

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