The informal economy in Ecuador

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Santiago Francisco Carranco Paredes

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This paper will analyse the effects of the economic changes that Correa’s government introduced on Ecuadorian policies, mainly focussing on the consequence that this policy had on the informal sector and unemployment. There aims of this work is to discuss how this modification to the economical policies have contributed to the development of the country and analyse the sustainability of the mentioned policies in order to contribute to the understanding about the informal economy from a non-western perspective, in this case using as an example the case of Ecuador.

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Carranco Paredes, S. F. (2018). The informal economy in Ecuador. INNOVA Reseach Journal, 3(9), 29–38. https://doi.org/10.33890/innova.v3.n9.2018.624
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Santiago Francisco Carranco Paredes, Universidad Internacional del Ecuador, Ecuador

Profesor Investigador de la Escuela de Diplomacia y Relaciones Internacionales de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Comunicación de la Universidad Internacional del Ecuador (UIDE). Estudiante del Programa Doctoral de Estudios Internacionales en la FLACSO-sede Quito. Becario de Excelencia en la Universidad de Edimburgo, MSc. Teoría Política Internacional. (Correspondencia dirigirla a scarrancoparedes@gmail.com / sacarrancopa@uide.edu.ec).

 

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