{"id":27379,"date":"2008-12-11T13:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T10:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eliamep.lncdoo.com\/work-package-3-deliverables-on-the-informal-sector-in-the-balkan-region\/"},"modified":"2024-08-28T11:03:43","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T08:03:43","slug":"work-package-3-deliverables-on-the-informal-sector-in-the-balkan-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/work-package-3-deliverables-on-the-informal-sector-in-the-balkan-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Work Package 3 Deliverables on the informal sector in the Balkan region"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"the-content\"><p>This Working paper studied informal networks and the informal economy in the Balkan region. Special emphasis was placed on Bulgaria and Croatia for the case studies on the role of informal networks in influencing the privatisation process. Bulgaria was also the principal case-study for the survey on factors that function as incentives for firms to operate \u2018in the shadows.\u2019 This empirical data provided concrete information on the factors and conditions that lead domestic and international firms to conduct parts of their activities in an informal manner. In addition, research conducted within the WP estimated the size of illegal trade in the region.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Final Papers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The final papers of WP3 that were presented at our Final Conference in Brussels on 18 November 2004 can be downloaded below.<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.eliamep.gr\/old\/eliamep\/files\/Conceptual.pdf\"><strong>Conceptual<\/strong><\/a>: Bojicic-Dzelilovic V., \u201cInformal Sector in the Balkans.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.eliamep.gr\/old\/eliamep\/files\/Informality_&amp;_Privatisation_Bulgaria.pdf\">Informality &amp; Privatisation: Bulgaria<\/a><\/strong> Bojkov V. &amp; Bojicic-Dzelilovic V., \u201cInformality in Post-Communist Transition: Determinants and Consequences of the Privatisation Process in Bulgaria.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.eliamep.gr\/old\/eliamep\/files\/Informality_&amp;_Privatisation_Croatia.pdf\">Informality &amp; Privatisation: Croatia<\/a><\/strong> Barrett E., \u201cThe Role of Informal Networks in the Privatisation Process in Croatia.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.eliamep.gr\/old\/eliamep\/files\/Survey.pdf\">Survey<\/a><\/strong> Stanchev K. (ed), \u201cReport: Study of Incentives, Characteristics and Strategies of Firms Operating \u2018in the Shadows\u2019.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.eliamep.gr\/old\/eliamep\/files\/Illegal_Trade_in_SEE.pdf\"><strong>Illegal Trade in SEE<\/strong><\/a>: Gligorov V. &amp; Holzner M., \u201cIllegal Trade in SEE.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Working paper studied informal networks and the informal economy in the Balkan region. Special emphasis was placed on Bulgaria and Croatia for the case studies on the role of informal networks in influencing the privatisation process. Bulgaria was also the principal case-study for the survey on factors that function as incentives for firms to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":27057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[492],"tags":[206,131,207,208],"program":[17],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44202,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27379\/revisions\/44202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27379"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=27379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}