The Informal Economy in Development: Evidence from German, British and Australian New Guinea
- Description:
- This study deals with the informal economy observed in developing countries, a focus inspired by the anthropologist Keith Hart’s recognition of informal economic activity in 1960s Ghana. There, as in other ‘under-developed’ territories and newly-independent states, economic informality was associated with colonialism and the subsequent ideology of ‘economic development’ that took hold among the Western victors of World War II. Economic informality arose under colonial influence because of the imposition of bureaucratic rule and the forced in...
- Display date:
- 2021
- Location:
- Papua New Guinea
- Format:
- book
- Collections:
- Australian National University Library
- Publisher:
- Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
- Content partner:
- Australian National University Library
- Availability:
- Not specified
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