Documents et rapports
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Gender and informality (anglais)
From a sample of informal firms in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Cote d'Ivoire, Madagascar and Mauritius, this note compares male, and female-owned businesses. The author test a number of hypotheses...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 60350 Date du document: 1 janvier 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Amin, Mohammad
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Necessity vs. opportunity entrepreneurs in the informal sector (anglais)
Some informal or unregistered businesses are established to take advantage of business opportunities (opportunity firms) while others are established because the owner cannot find a satisfactory job (necessity...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 60351 Date du document: 1 janvier 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Amin, Mohammad
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How do manufacturing and service firms differ within the informal sector? (anglais)
A comparison of service and manufacturing firms in the informal or unregistered sector in Cote d'Ivoire, Madagascar and Mauritius shows that service firms are larger in terms of total sales and also generate...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 60349 Date du document: 1 janvier 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Amin, Mohammad
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Obstacles to registering : necessity vs. Opportunity entrepreneurs (anglais)
Using a new dataset on informal or unregistered firms in Ivory Coast, Madagascar and Mauritius, this paper identifies the type of firms or entrepreneurs that experience greater obstacles to registering...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 53032 Date du document: 1 décembre 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Amin,Mohammad
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Labor productivity in the informal sector : necessity vs. Opportunity firms (anglais)
Differences between opportunity and necessity firms within the informal sector have long been debated. This paper revisits this debate using a new dataset of informal firms in three African countries...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 53031 Date du document: 1 décembre 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Amin, Mohammad
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Formal and informal microenterprises (anglais)
This note uses unique data from enterprise surveys in three African countries to examine the characteristics of informal and formal micro-enterprises. Entrepreneurs in the informal sector have different...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 50855 Date du document: 1 janvier 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Leino,Jessica Leigh