Informal Sector Pollution Control: What Policy Options Do We Have?

By Allen Blackman. 2000

120 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Justin W. Webb
2. Garry D. Bruton
3. R. Duane Ireland
4. Dave J. Ketchen
5. Marcel Thum
6. Amit K. Biswas
7. Michael A. Hitt
8. A. Kildegaard

In Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

1. Justin W. Webb
2. R. Duane Ireland
3. Garry D. Bruton
4. A. Kildegaard
5. Dave J. Ketchen
6. Allen Blackman
7. Mohammad Reza Farzanegan
8. Arnaud Reynaud

Citations in the corpus

• Informal Entrepreneurship and Industry Conditions (2016, background): “Finally, industry-specific policies, governing firms’ use of specific fuels, or regulating safety standards can also create undue costs for firms in the formal economy, thereby encouraging informality (e.g., Blackman, 2000).”
• Toward a Greater Understanding of Entrepreneurship and Strategy in the Informal Economy (2014, background): “Pollution regulations mandate that entrepreneurs use clean, yet more expensive, fuels (Blackman, 2000).”
• Pollution, Shadow Economy and Corruption: Theory and Evidence (2012, background): “The environmental hazards of the informal sector can be significant (Blackman, 2000).”
• Research on entrepreneurship in the informal economy: Framing a research agenda (2013, background): “A second potentially destructive aspect of informal entrepreneurs is that their activities often skirt labor, health, and environmental regulations (Blackman, 2000; Perry et al., 2007).”
• The Influence of Formal and Informal Institutional Voids on Entrepreneurship (2020, background): “In contrast, counter-productive attributes of informal activities include the loss of tax revenues (Alford & Feige, 1989), environmental, health-related, and other social risks due to noncompliance with regulations (Blackman, 2000), and unfair competition with formal firms (Kettles, 2007).”
• Clean technological change in developing-country industrial clusters: Mexican leather tanning (2010, background): “1 Resources for the Future Blackman and Kildegaard exceptionally numerous and because many are “informal,” that is, virtually anonymous to the state (Blackman 2000).”