Can digital sharing economy platforms pull Latin America’s informal sector into the mainstream? No
Can digital sharing economy platforms pull Latin America’s informal sector into the mainstream? No
The informal sector and social marginality are expanding in Latin America.
A bloated informal sector has long been a nagging structural problem in Latin America and in the developing world more generally. However, over the past few decades, it has proliferated as a result of the withdrawal of the state from market and social regulation. In particular, it has grown as governments have undertaken structural adjustment and free-market reform, rolled back social protections for workers and reformed labor laws to make labor more flexible.
The so-called sharing economy, which has given rise to new forms of self-employment such as Airbnb and Uber, may make...
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