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List of Sources of the Different Works that students used for their papers of PED-375. Professor Martha Chen, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Sources used by Maria Rodriguez (Dominican Republic)

A Brief profile of Free Trade Zones in the Dominican Republic, provided by CIPAF (Centre for Feminist Research in the Dominican Republic), (accessed November 14, 2001) http://www.oxfam.org.uk/campaign/clothes/ftz.htm

Clean Clothes Campaign, ETI southern Participation Conference Report, Duncan Green. Executive Summary. (accessed November 15, 2001) http://www.cleanclothes.org/codes/edu98-09.htm

“Comportamiento del Sector Zonas Francas durante el Año 2000”, Informe Estadistico, (accessed November 15, 2001): http://www.cnzfe.gov.do/palabras.htm

Estela’s Story, (accessed November 14, 2001):
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/campaign/clothes/estela.htm

Export Processing Zones: Steady Growth Provides a Major Source of Job Creation, ILO/98/34, (accessed November 15, 2001): http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/pr/1998/34.htm

Itzigsohn, Jose. Developing Poverty: The State, Labor market Regulation, and the Informal Economy in Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic. Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University, 2000.

Main Labor Aspects in the Free Zone, Law 8-90. National Free Zone Council, (Statistic and Commercial Information Department, (Dominican Republic), (accessed November 15, 2001): http://www.cnzfe.gov.do

Marhoz, Jean-Paul and Marcela Szymanski, Trade Union Campaign for a Social Clause, Behind the Wire: Anti-Union Repression in the Export Processing Zones, April 1996, International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, (accessed November 15, 2001: http://www/itcilo.it/english/actrav/tearn/global/ilo/frame/epzicftu.htm

“News”, Global Report Highlights, (accessed November 15, 2001):
http://us.ilo.org/news/focus/0008/FOCUS-4.html

Portes, Alejandro. “When More Can Be Less: Labor Standards, Development, and the Informal Economy,” in Contrapunto: The Informal Sector Debate in Latin America, ed. Cathy Rakowski. Albany: State University Press of New York, 1994.

Secretario de Trabajo, Salario Minimo, Resolucion No. 5/2001,(accessed November 15, 2001): http://www.set.gov.do/legislacion/salariomin/52001.htm

Women’s Work. (accessed November 14, 2001):
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/campaign/clothes/clospeak.htm

Working in the “Zona Franca”: Low-quality jobs for women: Opportunities or dead-ends? No. 29 April/May1999, ILO Website, (accessed November 15, 2001): http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/magazine/29/women.html

Sources used by Mohan (Malaysia)

1. International Labor Office (www.ilo.org)

2. Lam, T.T.F. (1981) Food For The City: The Role Of The Informal Sector

3. Dasgupta, N. (1992) Petty Trading in The Third World, Avebury: Aldershot

4. McGee, T.G. and Yeung, Y.M. (1977) Hawkers in Southeast Asia: Planning For Bazaar Economy, International Development Research Centre

5. McGee, T.G. (1970) Hawkers in Selected Asian Cities: A Preliminary Investigation, Centre of Asian Studies, Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong

6. Smart, J. (1989) The Political Economy of Street Hawkers in Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Centre of Asian Studies, University Of Hong Kong

7. Lee Lee Lod Ludher: Women in the Informal Sector in Malaysia

8. Malaysian Indian Congress: Report on Petty Trading and SMEs

9. Universiti Sains Malaysia: Micro-financing of Petty Traders

10. http://tradeport.org/ts/countries/malaysia/flt.html

11. Bromley, Ray and Chris Gerry 1979. “Who are the Casual Poor,” in Ray Bromley and Chris Gerry, eds., Casual Work and Poverty in Third World Cities, New York: Wiley.

12. Castells, Manuel and Alejandro Portes. 1989. “World Underneath: The Origins, Dynamics, and Effects of the Informal Economy,” in Portes et al., eds., The Informal Economy: Studies in Advanced and Less Developed Countries, Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press.

13. International Labor Office. 1972. Employment, Incomes and Equality: A Strategy for Increasing Productive Employment in Kenya, Geneva ILO Office.

14. Portes, A. 1994a. “The Informal Economy and Its Paradoxes," in Smelser, N. and Swedberg R., eds., Handbook of Economic Sociology.

15. World Bank Malaysia Country Report:
www.worldbank.org/eapsocial/countries/malay/educ1.htm

16. UNDP Human Development Report (www.undp.org.in)

17. Malaysian Budget, 2001

18. Bromley, R. 1978. “Introduction ­ The Urban Informal Sector: Why is it worth discussing?” in World Development Vol.6.

19. “Section 5: Innovations in Social Protection for the Informal Economy” Frances Lund and Smita Srinivas. Learning from Experience: A gendered approach to social protection for workers. ILO 2000

20. “Conclusion: The Policy Implications of Informality” Alejandro Portes, Manuel Castells, et al. The Informal Economy: Studies in Advanced and Less Developed Countries. 1989

21. “Globalization And The Informal Economy: How Global Trade And Investment Impact On The Working Poor” WIEGO. Carr, Marilyn, and Chen, Martha. May 2001

22. Participating in the Informal Sector: To be or not to be? (www.hbp.usm.my/informalsector/...)
 

 Sources used by Anton Dobogronov (Russia)

BISNIS (1997) Turkey: Suitcase Trade Part - Trade Is Lucrative, But Numbers Are Declining. http://www.bisnis.doc.gov/bisnis/country/Turkey.htm

Borodiuk,V.M., and O.V. Turchinov (1999). Shadow Economic Policy. In Economic Growh and Equity. World Bank Discussion Paper No. 407.

Brezinski, H. (1983) . The Second Economy in the Soviet Union and its implications for Economic Policy. The Economics of the Shadow Economy.  Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 362-376.

Charmes, J. (1998) Women Working in the Informal Sector in Africa: New Methods and New Data.  New York: United Nations Statistics Division.

Chmouliar, O. (1996) Cross border trading in the Czech Republic. Migracijske Teme, V. 12, 3, pp. 159-204.

Dobronogov, A.V. and L.D.Mayhew (2000). Pension Reform in a Highly Informalized Post-Soviet Economy. Interim Report 00-041, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria

Foundation “Intelektual’na Perspektyva” (1999). Impact of the informal economy on the employment. Research Report # 1,  Kiev, Ukraine

Foundation “Intelektual’na Perspektyva” (2000a). Impact of the informal economy on the government. Research Report # 2,  Kiev, Ukraine

Foundation “Intelektual’na Perspektyva” (2000b). Impact of the informal economy on the entrepreneurship. Research Report # 3,  Kiev, Ukraine

Feige, E. L. (1989) The underground economies: Tax evasion and information distortion. Cambridge University Press.

Grossman, G. (1987). Roots of Gorbachev’s Problems: Private Income and Outlay in the Late 1970s. Gorbachev’s Economic Plans. Joint Economic Committee, US Congress. Volume 1, Washington, DC, pp. 213-229.

Grossman, G. (1989). Sub-rosa Privatization and Marketization in the USSR.. Berkeley-Duke Occasional Papers  on the Second Economy in the USSR, paper # 17.

International Monetary Fund (1998). Shuttle Trade. Background paper prepared for the Eleventh Meeting of the IMF Committee on Balance of Payments Statistics, Washington, DC.

Kaufmann, D. and A. Kaliberda (1996). Integrating the Unofficial Economy into the Dynamics of Post-Socialist Economies. A Framework of Analysis and Evidence. Policy Research Working Paper # 1691. The World Bank. Washington, DC.

Leiter, S. and J.Tedstrom (1997). Russia's Informal Economy: A Framework for Analysis RAND Working Paper DRU-1678.

Pynzenyk, V.M. (1998) Horses are not guilty: Reforms or their imitation? Kyiv: Akademia

Shatalin, S. et al. (1990). Transition to the Market: Concept and Program. Part 1. Arkhangel’skoye, Moscow, August 1990 (Unpublished).

Treml, V.G. (1992). A Study of Labor Inputs into the Second Economy of the USSR. Berkeley-Duke Occasional Papers on the Second Economy in the USSR, # 33.

Treml, V. and M.Alexeev (1993). The Second Economy and Destabilizing Effect of its Growth on the State Economy in the Soviet Union: 1965-1989. Duke Economics Working Paper #95-33. Duke University, Durham, NC.

Zhdanova, Yu. (1996) Presentation at the conference “Shopping Tourism and Traveling Objects in Postwar Central Europe”, International Research Center for Cultural Sciences, Vienna, Austria.

Wallace C., V. Bedzir, and O. Chmouliar (1997) Spending, saving or investing social capital: the case of  shuttle traders in post-communist Central Europe. Vienna, Austria: Institut fur Hoehere Studien.

Sources used by Ellen Stiefvater (Cuba)

Acosta, Dalia. Cuba-“Outlook: Socialism, Caught Between Crisis and Reform”, Inter Press Service, December 28, 1997. (Lexis Nexis Academic Universe)

Agency for International Development,  “Unemployment Rates”, from Latin America and the CaribbeanNovember, 1999.

Alonso, Jose Luis and Patrick Smith, “A Nation of Entreprenuers?”, Business Week; New York; November 20, 2000.

CIA, The World Factbook, www.odci.gov/cia, January 2001 (1998 estimates)

Clissold, Gillian Gund, “Cuba’s Employment Conudrum: Cautious Reform: 1991 Through 1994”, The Cuba Briefing Paper Series, Georgetown University Caribbean Project, Number 11, September 1996, www.georgetown.edu/sfs/programs/clas/Caribe/bp11.htm

Clissold, Gillian Gund, “Cuba’s Employment Conudrum: Pushing the Limits of Debate: January to July 1995”, The Cuba Briefing Paper Series, Georgetown University Caribbean Project, Number 14, May 1997, www.georgetown.edu/sfs/programs/clas/Caribe/bp14.htm

Cruz, Robert D. and J. Antonio Villamil, “Sustainable small enterprise development in a Cuban transition economy”, Studies in Comparative International Development; New Brunswick; Winter 2000.

Davies, Alan, “What Venice abhors, Havana adores”, Contemporary Review, Cheam; June 2000.

DeGeorge, Gail and Gail Reed, “Entrepreneurs: Big Hopes, Big Pains”, Business Week; New York; March 17, 1997

Gordon, Joy, “Cuba’s Entrepreneurial Socialism”, The Atlantic Monthly online, January 1997.

Hernandez-Cata, Ernesto, “The Fall and Recovery of the Cuban Economy in the 1990s: Mirage or Reality”, Cuba in Transition, ASCE 2000.

Orro, Roberto, “Has Cuba Definitely Found the Path to Economic Growth?”, Cuba in Transition, ASCE 2000.

Seiglie, Carlos, “Cuba’s road to serfdom”, Cato Journal; Washington; Winter 2001.

Sweeney, John, “Seven Days in Havana: How Castro’s market socialism works”, World Affairs; Washington; Summer 1996.

World Development Indicators, 2000, Intl Bank for Reconstruction and Development (Lexis-Nexis Statistical Universe)
 

No author given:

“Unemployment Rate at 7%”, Global News Wire, Caribbean Update, October 1, 1998. (Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe)
“Enterprise? Tax it”, The Economist, London; July 5, 1997. (Proquest)
“The Americas: Mala vista social club”, The Economist, London; October 23, 1999. (Proquest)
 “Sea-food platter, Havana-style”, The Economist; London; March 1, 1997. (Proquest)
 

Sources used by Namju Cho (No Country Specified)

Floro, Sagrario and Yotopoulos, Pan. Informal Credit Markets and the New Institutional Economics: The Case of Philippine Agriculture. Westview Press, 1991.

Yu, Sandra. Supporting the Informal Sector: Cases of NGO Assistance Programs. Institute on Church and Social Issues, 1994.

Urban Poverty: The Case of the Railway Squatters, Occasional Paper No. 6. UST Social Research Center, University of Santo Tomas, Philippines, 1992.

Chickering, A. Lawrence and Salahdine, Mohamed. The Silent Revolution: The Informal Sector in Five Asian and Near Eastern Countries, ICS Press, 1991.

Pernia, Ernesto. Urban Poverty in Asia: A Survey of Critical Issues. Oxford University Press, 1994.

Meyer, Titus and van Naerssen, Ton. Squatters and Their Self-Organising Capacity: Case of Metropolitan Manila. Section Human Geography of Developing Countries, Faculty of Policy Sciences, Catholic University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 1989.

Labor Force Survey. National Statistics Office, Republic of the Philippines, 2001.

Yu, Sandra. “The Philippines Informal Sector,” International Labour Organisation, (draft as for July, 2001).

Cohen, Monique, with Mihir Bhatt and Pat Horn, “Women Street Vendors: The Road to Recognition,” SEEDS, Population Council, No year citation.

Om Prakash Mathur. “Alleviating Urban Poverty: Comparative Asian Perspectives and Experiences," UMP-Asia Occasional Paper No. 29, June 1996.

"International OSH Programme on the Informal Sector.” ILO SEAPAT Report, November 12, 1998.

Class readings by Jacques Charmes, 1999.

Bureau of Labor Employment Statistics, Department of Labor and Employment, Republic of the Philippines, various years.
Business World, Dec. 13, 2000.

The National Commission on the Role of the Filipino Women, 2000.
 




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