The Informal Economy in Global Perspective: Varieties of Governance

Introduction: Informal Economies as Varieties of Governance; Abel Polese, Colin C. Williams, Ioana A. Horodnic and Predrag Bejakovic.- Chapter 1. Why read informality in a substantive manner? On the embeddedness of the Soviet second economy; Lela Rekhviashvili.- Chapter 2. Informal Economy: the invisible hand of government; Abbas Khandan.- Chapter 3. Estimating the size of Croation shadow economy: a labour approach; Sabina Hodzic.- Chapter 4. Informal employment and earnings determination in Ukraine; Oksana Nezhyvenko and Philippe Adai.- Chapter 5. Approaching informality : rear-mirror methodology and ethnographic inquiry; Marius Wamsiedel.- Chapter 6. Explaining the informal economy in post-communities societies: a study of the asymmetry between formal and informal institutions in Romania; Colin C. Williams and Ioana A. Horodnic.- Chapter 7. Post-socialist informality rural style: impressions from Bulgaria; Diana Traikova.- Chapter 8. Exploring the practice of making informal payments in the health sector: some lessons from Greece; Adrian V. Horodnic, Colin C. Williams, Abel Polese, Adriana Zai and Liviu Oprea.- Chapter 9. Violent pressure on business and the size of the informal economy: evidence from Russian regions; Michael Rochlitz.- Chapter 10. Labor informality in Mexico: an indicator analysis; Rogelio Varela Llamas, Ramón A. Castillo Ponce and Juan Manuel Ocegueda Hernández.- Chapter 11. The interplay between formal and informal firms and its implications on jobs in francophone Africa: case studies of Senegal and Benin; Ahmadou Aly Mbaye, Nancy Claire Benjamin and Fatou Gueye.- Chapter 12. Governing informal payments by market in the Chinese healthcare system; Jingqing Yang.- Chapter 13. Social mechanisms of the counterpublic sphere: a case of a coffee farmers' cooperative in Lao PDR; Arihiro Minoo.- Chapter 14. Formalisation of entrepreneurship in the informal economy in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) and the role of formal institutions: an analysis of Ghana's experience; Kwame Adom.- Chapter 15. Evidence on corruption in public procurements in health care and the implications for policy; Julia Schipperges, Milena Pavlova, Tetiana Stepurko, Paul Vincke and Wim Groot.