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Autor:
John D. Conroy
The idea of an informal economy emerged from, and is a critique of, the ideology of ‘economic development’. It originated from Keith Hart’s recognition of informal economic activity in 1960s Ghana. In the context of four colonialisms – German
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https://doi.org/10.3167/9781800739680
Autor:
John D. Conroy
The idea of an informal economy emerged from, and is a critique of, the ideology of ‘economic development'. It originated from Keith Hart's recognition of informal economic activity in 1960s Ghana. In the context of four colonialisms – German, Br
Autor:
John D. Conroy
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
Set in Goroka in the highlands of Papua New Guinea (PNG) where coffee became the staple export crop after the Second World War, this paper explores how a variant of Keith Hart's informal economy emerged among indigenous Gorokans. Colonial administrat
Autor:
John D. Conroy
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
Hart's informality occurs in market economies when people are unable or unwilling to conform with the guiding orthodoxy of the State. In Papua New Guinea (PNG) after the second world war an ideology of 'economic development' was adopted by the coloni
Autor:
John D. Conroy, Paul B. McGuire
Publikováno v:
Asia-Pacific Review. 7:90-108
In the 1990s, microfinance has captured the imagination of opinion leaders, governments, and donor agencies. Suppor ters have argued that microfinance institutions (MFIs) can not only have a major impact in the fight against poverty, but can do so on
Autor:
John D. Conroy
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
This paper is concerned with the economic history of immigrant Chinese in colonial Rabaul and its hinterland (in German, later Australian, New Guinea) over almost a century to the Independence of Papua New Guinea in 1975. It is a companion piece to a
Autor:
John D. Conroy
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
Without pretension to novelty in the historical narrative, this paper examines how far economic informality emerged among Papuans in Pt. Moresby, capital of Australian Papua. Informal behaviour arises out of inability or unwillingness to conform with
Autor:
John D. Conroy
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
This paper is concerned with the accommodation to the market economy of Tolai people, indigenous to the Gazelle Peninsula in Papua New Guinea and regarded as one of the most prosperous and enterprising groups in the country. 'The market' was introduc
Autor:
Paul B. McGuire, John D. Conroy
Publikováno v:
Small Enterprise Development. 8:4-15
The Foundation for Development Cooperation's 'Banking with the Poor' project stresses the importance of linkages between commercial banks on the one hand, and non-government organizations (NGOs) and self-help groups of the poor (SHGs) on the other, a
Autor:
John D. Conroy
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
The purpose of this paper is to explore the notion of economic informality and its application in the rural context of developing and transitional economies, applying Keith Hart's (1987) notion of informality as a 'remedial concept'. Some remedy is n