Contrapunto Book

	Tables and Figures
	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction: What Debate?	3
2	The Informal Sector Debate, Part 1: 1970-1983	11
3	The Informal Sector Debate, Part 2: 1984-1993	31
4	The Many Roles of the Informal Sector in Development: Evidence from Urban Labor Market Research, 1940-1989	51
5	The Impact of Government Policies on Microenterprise Development: Conclusions from Empirical Studies	75
6	Macroeconomic Policy and the Informal Sector	91
7	When More Can Be Less: Labor Standards, Development, and the Informal Economy	113
8	Informality, de Soto Style: From Concept to Policy	131
9	Inside Informal Sector Policies in Latin America: An Economist's View	153
10	The Role of Governments and Private Institutions in Addressing the Informal Sector in Latin America	177
11	Training and Technical Assistance for Small and Microenterprise: A Discussion of Their Effectiveness	199
12	Informality and Poverty: Causal Relationship or Coincidence?	223
13	Transaction Costs, Formal Plans, and Formal Informality: Alternatives to the Informal "Sector"	251
14	Contrapunto: Policy, Research, and the Role of the State	273
	Bibliography	289
	Contributors	321
	Author Index	325
	Subject Index	331