The Informal Economy in the EU Accession Countries
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The conference report with papers and articles
about the informal economy in the accession countries
is published in the framework of the project "The
Informal Economy in the EU Accession Countries:
Size, Scope, Trends and Challenges in the Process
of EU Enlargement". It includes papers presented
at an International
informal economy conference, organized
by the Center for the Study of Democracy on 29th
and 30th of November, 2002 in Sofia.
The first part presents the size, scope
and methods for grey economy assessment in the
transition and accession countries. The second
part is dedicated to the consequences and development
of the practical responses in the sphere of the
institutional reform and the policy for counteracting
the informal economy. The relationship between
the informal economy and the organized crime is
analyzed as well.