MPG.eBooks - Table of Contents: The informal sector in francophone Africa

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Benjamin, Nancy C.
Corporate Author:	World Bank
Other Authors:	Mbaye, Ahmadou Aly, Diop, Ibrahima Thione
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, D.C World Bank 2012
Subjects:	Small Business / Africa, French-speaking West Informal Sector (economics) / Africa, French-speaking West Africa, West / Economic Conditions / 1960-
Online Access:	http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/978...
Collection:	World Bank E-Library Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa

Table of Contents:

Outline: Characteristics of informal businesses in West AfricaInstitutional, 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.