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Dellino, Domenick Joseph.

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Survival strategies for a rapidly changing mixed economy: The resilience of Managua's informal sector.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Survival strategies for a rapidly changing mixed economy: The resilience of Managua's informal sector./
Author:	Dellino, Domenick Joseph.
Description:	274 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-11, Section: A, page: 4441.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International56-11A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9607361

Survival strategies for a rapidly changing mixed economy: The resilience of Managua's informal sector.
Dellino, Domenick Joseph.

Survival strategies for a rapidly changing mixed economy: The resilience of Managua's informal sector. - 274 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-11, Section: A, page: 4441.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Florida, 1995.

Largely consisting of market women, street vendors, and home-based shop keepers--the informal sector of Managua, Nicaragua during the late 1980s failed to fit the commonly described profile of informals as marginal poor. Although how we conceptualize the informal sector has evolved greatly in recent years, the quest for a universally acceptable definition remains elusive. Once characterized as poised against state efforts to formalize them, and as operating on the fringes of economic and social activity, these informal actors enjoyed not only occasional support from the Sandinistas, but also often demonstrated considerably greater economic mobility than their formal sector counterparts. Managuan informals enjoyed what I call a "hyperinflation honeymoon."Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Anthropology, Cultural.

Survival strategies for a rapidly changing mixed economy: The resilience of Managua's informal sector.
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520 $a Largely consisting of market women, street vendors, and home-based shop keepers--the informal sector of Managua, Nicaragua during the late 1980s failed to fit the commonly described profile of informals as marginal poor. Although how we conceptualize the informal sector has evolved greatly in recent years, the quest for a universally acceptable definition remains elusive. Once characterized as poised against state efforts to formalize them, and as operating on the fringes of economic and social activity, these informal actors enjoyed not only occasional support from the Sandinistas, but also often demonstrated considerably greater economic mobility than their formal sector counterparts. Managuan informals enjoyed what I call a "hyperinflation honeymoon."
520 $a Given the confusion about the nature and role of the informal sector, the first purpose of this dissertation was to capture the Nicaraguan experience from the unique perspective of those engaged in informal commerce at the turbulent peak of the war-weary Sandinista regime. The household survival strategies of these informal actors and their formal sector counterparts provide the primary research question guiding this book: were those engaged in informal sector activities better off than those in the formal sector? Using three measures of quality of life--household income, material possessions, and perceived quality of life--households with only informal sector workers, only formal sector workers, and workers from both sectors were compared. Owing, in part, to the unique economic conditions of the time--hyperinflation, formal sector food subsidies, and the Sandinista's experiment with a mixed economy, as well as the dispursed nature of Managua's market infrastructure--those households that were able to employ members in both sectors faired better than those households composed of workers from either sector alone.
520 $a Five years later, staggering hyperinflation has been replaced with 70% unemployment. A once clearly defined, political pluralism has been supplanted with a scramble for power from various sectors--none with a clear agenda. A land of once extremely scarce resources has been transformed into an arena where virtually anything is readily available--albeit for a price few of the majority poor can afford. Now once-prosperous informal sector traders long for scarce formal sector jobs.
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