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| Title: | | Enforcement and compliance in Lima's street markets: the origins and consequences of policy incoherence toward informal traders  |
| Authors: | | Roever, Sally |
| Issue Date: | | 2005 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Research Paper, UNU-WIDER, United Nations University (UNU) 2005/16 |
| Abstract: | | Almost twenty years have passed since researchers from the Institute for Liberty and Democracy in Peru showed how ‘bad laws’ impose disproportionate costs on those who choose formality. Although a multitude of conflicting regulations still precludes effective governance of informal trade in Lima, this paper argues that the sources of those conflicts are more diverse – though perhaps more tractable – than they might have been twenty years ago. Specifically, the paper identifies three sources of policy incoherence in Lima that contribute to persistent clashes between informal workers and policy makers: (1) the lack of definitional clarity in national and metropolitan-level legislation; (2) the absence of reliable mechanisms designed to resolve those definitional contradictions; and (3) a resulting lack of policy continuity over time within individual municipal administrations. |
| Subjects: | | informal economy taxation law government policy |
| JEL: | | E26 H71 I38 K42 |
| ISBN: | | 9291906956 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | WIDER Research Papers, United Nations University (UNU)
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