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Title Informal economies in post-socialist spaces : practices, institutions and networks / edited by Jeremy Morris, University of Birmingham, UK, Abel Polese, Dublin City University, Ireland, and Tallinn University, Estonia.
Publisher Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Status Loan Type Location Shelf-mark
 In Library  1 week  Library Level 6 Annexe  Sov Stud OH497 2015-M  
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Description xiv, 302 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN 9781137483065 hardback
1137483067 hardback
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Introduction: my name is legion : the resilience and endurance of informality beyond, or in spite of, the states / Abel Polese and Jeremy Morris -- Thinking informality and development writ large and small -- Evaluating the validity of the contrasting theoretical perspectives towards the informal economy in Ukraine / Colin Williams and Olga Onoschenko -- Institutional transformation and informality in Azerbaijan and Georgia / Huseyn Aliyev -- Fighting the shadows Lithuania's informal workers and the financial crisis / Ida Harboe Knudsen -- Formal crutches for broken sociality / Aet Annist -- Re-theorising informality : power, culture, kinship and history -- Field notes on informality's culture of ubiquity : recognition and symbolic power within informal economic practices in Kosovo / Anna Danielsson -- The importance of having tela : reproduction of informality in the democratization sector in Bosnia / Karla Koutkova -- Perception vs. practices : nepotism in small businesses in Bulgaria / Tanya Chavdarova -- The importance of personalized relationships in postsocialist rural Bulgaria : informality and the socioeconomic success of capitalist agricultural entrepreneurs / Christian Giordano -- Informal public sectors and welfare : state intervention or withdrawal? -- Informal payments for healthcare services in Lithuania and Ukraine / Tetiana Stepurko, Milena Pavlova, Irena Gryga, Liubove Murauskiene, Wim Groot -- Nuclear borders : informally negotiating the Chernobyl exclusion zone / Thom Davies -- Governing informal payments in healthcare : lessons from China / Jingqing Yang -- Informal economic practices within the Kyrgyz police (militsiia) / Liam OShea.
Library Class Sov Stud OH497
Subject Informal sector (Economics) -- Europe, Eastern.
Informal sector (Economics) -- Europe, Central.
Informal sector (Economics) -- Former Soviet republics.
Post-communism -- Economic aspects.
Other Author Morris, Jeremy, 1974- editor.
Polese, Abel, editor.

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