Invisible to official statistics and operating outside the reach of governmental regulation, informal finance markets often prove more efficient and more fair t

In 2011 the World Bank—with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation—launched the Global Findex database, the world's most comprehensive data set

The Global Informal Workforce is a fresh look at the informal economy around the world and its impact on the macroeconomy. The book covers interactions between

A large percentage of workers and firms operate in the informal economy, outside the line of sight of governments in emerging market and developing economies. T

What guidance does academic research really provide to economic policy development? The critical and analytical surveys in this volume investigate links between