TY - BOOK ID - 11275419 TI - The informal sector in francophone Africa : firm size, productivity and institutions AU - Benjamin, Nancy C. AU - Mbaye, Ahmadou Aly. AU - Diop, Ibrahima Thione. AU - World Bank. PY - 2012 SN - 0821395378 9786613693396 0821395424 1280783001 PB - Washington, D.C. : World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Africa, West -- Economic conditions -- 1960. KW - Informal sector (Economics) -- Africa, French-speaking West. KW - Small business -- Africa, French-speaking West. KW - Informal sector (Economics) KW - Small business KW - Management KW - Business & Economics KW - Industrial Management KW - Africa, West KW - Economic conditions KW - Businesses, Small KW - Medium-sized business KW - Micro-businesses KW - Microbusinesses KW - Microenterprises KW - Small and medium-sized business KW - Small and medium-sized enterprises KW - Small businesses KW - SMEs (Small business) KW - Hidden economy KW - Parallel economy KW - Second economy KW - Shadow economy KW - Subterranean economy KW - Underground economy KW - Business KW - Business enterprises KW - Industries KW - Artisans KW - Economics KW - Size UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:11275419 AB - The informal sector in West Africa has some distinctive characteristics. Informality usually connotes small and unorganized producers operating on the fringes of the formal economy. In West African countries, however, the normal situation is to some extent reversed: a dynamic informal sector dominates the stagnant formal economy. Moreover, in these countries, small operators coexist with very large and politically well-connected informal enterprises and well-organized networks. Notwithstanding its importance, there have been relatively few systematic studies of this dual feature of the informa ER -