Table 1: Informality
View |
Dualism |
Markets |
Processes/Goods/Services |
Linkages | |
Productive |
scale |
product |
legal |
Dualist | |
legalistic |
wage |
labour |
illegal |
structuralist | |
evasion |
credit |
legalistic |
Table 2: Views for the informal economy from Table 1 in Chen (2007)
The old view: ILO 1972 |
The new view: ILO 2002 |
traditional economy that will disappear |
here to stay and expand |
only marginally productive |
contributes significantly to GDP |
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