Informal economies in post-socialist spaces
Subtitle: practices, institutions and networks
By: Jeremy Morris, University of Birmingham, UK, Abel Polese, Dublin City University, Ireland
Contributors: Polese, Abel
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781137483065
Subjects: Post-communism; Economic aspects; Informal sector (Economics)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: my name is legion : the resilience and endurance of informality beyond, or in spite of, the states / Abel Polese and Jeremy Morris; title: Thinking informality and development writ large and small; title: Evaluating the validity of the contrasting theoretical perspectives towards the informal economy in Ukraine / Colin Williams and Olga Onoschenko; title: Institutional transformation and informality in Azerbaijan and Georgia / Huseyn Aliyev; title: Fighting the shadows Lithuania's informal workers and the financial crisis / Ida Harboe Knudsen; title: Formal crutches for broken sociality / Aet Annist; title: Re-theorising informality : power, culture, kinship and history; title: Field notes on informality's culture of ubiquity : recognition and symbolic power within informal economic practices in Kosovo / Anna Danielsson; title: The importance of having tela : reproduction of informality in the democratization sector in Bosnia / Karla Koutkova; title: Perception vs. practices : nepotism in small businesses in Bulgaria / Tanya Chavdarova; title: The importance of personalized relationships in postsocialist rural Bulgaria : informality and the socioeconomic success of capitalist agricultural entrepreneurs / Christian Giordano; title: Informal public sectors and welfare : state intervention or withdrawal?; title: Informal payments for healthcare services in Lithuania and Ukraine / Tetiana Stepurko, Milena Pavlova, Irena Gryga, Liubove Murauskiene, Wim Groot; title: Nuclear borders : informally negotiating the Chernobyl exclusion zone / Thom Davies; title: Governing informal payments in healthcare : lessons from China / Jingqing Yang; title: Informal economic practices within the Kyrgyz police (militsiia) / Liam OShea.