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Informal Survey 2010 (Guatemala)

author(s) Inter-American Development Bank - World Bank
from World Bank Group (WB)
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themes
regions
  • Western Africa
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Africa
  • World
  • Central America
  • Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Americas
citation

Inter-American Development Bank; World Bank, 'Informal Survey 2010 (Guatemala)', 2011

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Abstract

This research is a survey of unregistered businesses conducted in Guatemala from Sept. 29 to Nov. 20, 2010. The study was carried out through the joint collaboration of the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. Data from 303 enterprises was analyzed.

Questionnaire topics include general information about a business, infrastructure and services, sales and supplies, crime, sources and access to finance, business-government relationship, assets, bribery, workforce composition, obstacles to get registration, reasons for not registering, and benefits that an establishment could get from registration. The mode of data collection is face-to-face interviews.

The Informal Surveys aim to accomplish the following objectives:
1) To provide information about the state of the private sector for informal businesses in client countries;
2) To generate information about the reasons of said informality;
3) To collect useful data for the research agenda on informality;
4) To provide information on the level of activity in the informal sector of selected urban centers in each country.

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