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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
Informality, Size, and Regulation: Theory and an Application to Egypt
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| Autores: |
Giugale, Marcelo M.
El-Diwany, Sherif
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| Data: |
2006-07-31
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| Ano: |
1997
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| Palavras-chave: |
Informality
Size Regulation
Egypt
Hide-Outs
Agricultural and Food Policy
O17
L11
L51
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| Resumo: |
The paper shows how, when the enforceability of regulations is size-sensitive, price competition can lock firms into informality and, thus, smallness, depending on the form of the production function. In that context, exogenours "help"packages targeted to informal firms "promote" micro and small enterprises (i.e., increase their numbers) but do not "develop" them (i.e., foster their growth). The "help" only generates a short-term span of abnormal profits for existing informal firms, and a long-term income transfer toward informal-market consumers. The model is tested in the context of Egypt's micro and small enterprise sector.
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| Tipo: |
Working or Discussion Paper
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
23190
http://purl.umn.edu/18542
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| Editor: |
AgEcon Search
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| Relação: |
Iowa State University>Center for Agricultural and Rural Development>CARD Working Paper Series
CARD Working Paper 97-WP 185
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| Formato: |
30
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