Living with Duality: Fiscal Policy and Informality in Latin America / Juan Ramón de Laiglesia
Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: OECD Development Centre Policy Insights ; no.81Publisher: Paris : OECD Publishing, 2008Description: 2 p. ; 21 x 29.7cmSubject(s): Additional physical formats: Parallelausg.: Vivre avec la dualité : la politique budgétaire et le secteur informel en Amérique latine DOI: DOI: 10.1787/228275726751Online resources: Summary: Although hard to measure, informality is by all accounts high in Latin America: about half of the region’s working population can be considered informal. In Mexico, the only Latin American country that belongs to the OECD, up to 60 per cent of non-agricultural workers – almost 22 million people – are employed informally or self-employed. These working people have opted out or have been shut out of the formal system of taxes and social protection. In that sense, they bear witness to a broken social contract between citizens and the state.PPN: PPN: 730037320Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-13-SOC | ZDB-13-SOC-ebookNo physical items for this record