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| author | Polese, Abel |
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| contents | <p>This article is the rst attempt to apply Putnis and Sauka’s approach to direct measurement of the shadow economy through a survey of company managers in Central Asia. The results of the survey are used to calculate a shadow economy index for 2017 and 2018 in Kyrgyzstan, and to discuss the di erence between direct and indirect methods in calculating the size of a shadow economy. We also propose a distinction between shadow economies and informality in general. While a shadow economy is usually understood to arise as a consequence of underreporting of income, we argue that informality is best understood as the aggregate of non-monetary and non-economic practices used in society. Applying this distinction to our case, we suggest that the origins of Kyrgyzstan’s shadow economy are not only economic; rather social and cultural processes have had signi cant e ects. This has implications for policy responses that address shadow economic activities.</p> |
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| publishDate | 2025 |
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| spellingShingle | Informality versus shadow economy: reflecting on the first results of a manager's survey in Kyrgyzstan Polese, Abel <p>This article is the rst attempt to apply Putnis and Sauka’s approach to direct measurement of the shadow economy through a survey of company managers in Central Asia. The results of the survey are used to calculate a shadow economy index for 2017 and 2018 in Kyrgyzstan, and to discuss the di erence between direct and indirect methods in calculating the size of a shadow economy. We also propose a distinction between shadow economies and informality in general. While a shadow economy is usually understood to arise as a consequence of underreporting of income, we argue that informality is best understood as the aggregate of non-monetary and non-economic practices used in society. Applying this distinction to our case, we suggest that the origins of Kyrgyzstan’s shadow economy are not only economic; rather social and cultural processes have had signi cant e ects. This has implications for policy responses that address shadow economic activities.</p> |
| title | Informality versus shadow economy: reflecting on the first results of a manager's survey in Kyrgyzstan |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16575216 |