Bureaucratic form and the informal economy

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The urban informal economy, local inclusion and achieving a global green transformation (2016, background): “As Hart (2006) e the first to identify the informal sector e has observed, the sheer scale of urban informality reflects a large gap between the bureaucratic regulatory systems of the government and economic realities of most citizens.”
INFORMALITY: CAUSES, CONSEQUENCES AND POLICY RESPONSES (2017, unknown): “Here is how he describes his insight in a later retrospective (Hart, 2006): " Following Weber, I argued that the ability to stabilize economic activity within a bureaucratic form made returns more calculable and regular for the workers as well as their bosses.”
Toward a Greater Understanding of Entrepreneurship and Strategy in the Informal Economy (2014, background): “The much larger size of the informal sectors in developing economies relative to developed economies has generally led informality to be viewed as a possible hindrance to development (Hart, 2006; Rakowski, 1994).”
Research on entrepreneurship in the informal economy: Framing a research agenda (2013, background): “Developmental economists adopted the concept, viewing the understanding of the informal economy as critical to the development of emerging economies (Hart, 2006; Rakowski, 1994).”