Growth, Fiscal Policy and the Informal Sector in a Small Open Economy

Gui de Mendonça

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Abstract: We discuss the implications of informality on growth and fiscal policy by considering an informal sector based on low tech firms, in an open economy model of endogenous growth, where labour supply is elastic and increasing returns arise from public spending. We allow for both labour and capital to allocate between sectors and examine the dynamic and policy issues that arise in an economy, where long run outcomes are still dominated by formal activities, but long macroeconomic transitions arise as a result of informal microeconomic activities, which take advantage of both government taxation and limited fiscalization.

Keywords: Endogenous Growth Theory; Optimal Fiscal Policy; Informal Sector; Public Capital. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C61 E62 F43 O17 O41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2009
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