Integrating the Informal Sector in the Modernization Process

Tokman, Víctor E.

doi:10.1353/sais.2001.0027

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“…These findings corroborate observations in other studies (e.g., Sengendo et al 2001;Kappel, Lay, Steiner 2004) that high tax is an obstacle to business development in Uganda. Tokman (2001) also reports that high taxes subtract a substantial amount from the income generated by Latin American microenterprises. This decreases their internal sources of funding for the expansion of their production operations and the growth of their business.…”

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Business Constraints and Growth Potential of Micro and Small Manufacturing Enterprises in Uganda

Ishengoma

Kappel

2008

SSRN Journal

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Ugandan micro-and small enterprises (MSEs) still perform poorly. The paper utilizes data collected in Uganda in March and April 2003 to analyze the business constraints faced by these MSEs. Using a stratified random sampling, a sample of 265MSEs were interviewed. The study focuses on the 105 manufacturing firms that responded to all questions. It examines the extent to which the growth of MSEs is associated with business constraints, while also controlling for owners' attributes and firms' characteristics. The results reveal that MSEs' growth potential is negatively affected by limited access to productive resources (finance and business services), by high taxes, and by lack of market access.

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Business Constraints and Growth Potential of Micro and Small Manufacturing Enterprises in Uganda

Ishengoma

Kappel

2008

SSRN Journal

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“…It therefore appears that entrepreneurial endeavour in the informal economy in Brazil is not a result of sub-contracting production functions down the supply chain to the informal sector. Nevertheless, it might still be the case, as other commentaries based on the depiction of these informal entrepreneur as necessity-based entrepreneurs argue, that this realm represents an absorber of surplus labour and provider of income earning opportunities for those excluded from the formal labour market (Bhatt, 2006;Nelson and Bruijn, 2005;Tokman, 2001). …”

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Is Informal Sector Entrepreneurship Necessity- or Opportunity-driven? Some Lessons from Urban Brazil

Williams¹

2014

BMR

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The aim of this paper is to evaluate critically the widely-held assumption that entrepreneurs operating in the informal sector in developing nations are largely necessity-driven entrepreneurs, pushed into this entrepreneurial endeavour as a survival strategy in the absence of alternatives. Reporting an extensive 2003 survey conducted in Brazilian urban areas of informal sector entrepreneurs operating small businesses with less then five employees, the finding is that under half of the surveyed entrepreneurs are driven out of necessity into entrepreneurial endeavour in the informal economy. The outcome is a call to recognize the prevalence of opportunity-drivers amongst entrepreneurs operating in the informal economy and to reposition informal sector entrepreneurs more centre-stage in discussions of entrepreneurship and enterprise development.

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“…though still considered critical in the development of this phenomenon, to the logic of decentralization in the context of a liberalized macro economic framework (Tokman 2001).…”

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Local Government and Local Development: Bridging the Gap through Critical Discourse: Evidence from the Commonwealth Caribbean

Schoburgh

2012

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Integrating the Informal Sector in the Modernization Process

Cited by 53 publications

References 4 publications

Business Constraints and Growth Potential of Micro and Small Manufacturing Enterprises in Uganda

Business Constraints and Growth Potential of Micro and Small Manufacturing Enterprises in Uganda

Is Informal Sector Entrepreneurship Necessity- or Opportunity-driven? Some Lessons from Urban Brazil

Local Government and Local Development: Bridging the Gap through Critical Discourse: Evidence from the Commonwealth Caribbean

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