Public policies promoting the informal economy: Effects on incomes, employment and growth in Burkina Faso

2020 ◽

pp. 127-138

Author(s):

Giovanni Andrea Cornia

Keyword(s):

Developing Countries ◽

Low Income ◽

Economic Performance ◽

Informal Economy ◽

Public Policies ◽

Low Income Countries ◽

Fiscal Policies ◽

Demand Side ◽

National Accounts ◽

The Impact

The chapter discusses the reasons whycKeynesian policies and development macroeconomics in low-income countries received any attention relatively late, as well as the factors that led to a gradual acceptance of demand-side measures. It also discusses the data, conceptual, and accounting problems encountered when measuring economic performance in low-income countries, including the importance of self-consumption, barter, unilateral transactions, and unrecorded monetary transactions in the informal economy. All this reduces the impact of monetary and fiscal policies and underline the importance of structural policies. The chapter also discusses the accounting conventions and practices used to overcome such problems, and the impact all this has on the estimates of the main macroeconomic aggregates and the evaluation of the impact of public policies.

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Public policies for rural poverty alleviation: The case of agricultural households in the Plateau Central area of Burkina Faso

Agricultural Systems ◽

10.1016/j.agsy.2012.02.006 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 110 ◽

pp. 1-9 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Safiétou Sanfo ◽

Françoise Gérard

Keyword(s):

Burkina Faso ◽

Poverty Alleviation ◽

Public Policies ◽

Rural Poverty ◽

Central Area ◽

Agricultural Households ◽

Plateau Central

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Spain: large-scale regularisation and its impacts on labour market and social policy

Transfer European Review of Labour and Research ◽

10.1177/102425890801400406 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 14 (4) ◽

pp. 589-606 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Fausto Miguélez ◽

Albert Recio

Keyword(s):

Social Policy ◽

Labour Market ◽

Immigration Policy ◽

Informal Economy ◽

Large Scale ◽

Public Policies ◽

Border Security ◽

Popular Support ◽

Formed Part ◽

Employment Rights

Regularisation measures in Spain have formed part of an overall immigration policy that until a few years ago was geared more towards border security than to meeting the demands of the labour market. However, the regularisation campaign in 2005 was different: it enjoyed widespread popular support and sought to combat the informal economy and grant employment rights to immigrants who were in fact working. As a result, the labour market is now better regulated, but efforts to combat segmentation have not been so successful. Furthermore, the regularisation campaigns were inadequately funded, and failed to bring about sufficient improvements in public policies.

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