ANTHRO 104 Study Guide - Final Guide: Informal Sector
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Pay for everything in a cash: don"t have banks because they don"t want to have a paper trail, no way to insure themselves or their goods, the whole system is basically based on trust. The shopkeeper and the war orphans: gives them cigarettes to sell and then takes some of the profit. We"re all participating in informal economy whether we realize it or not: hygenemy: we think we know what"s right and wrong but really all we know is what people tell us to know. It"s how things always used to be: smuggling makes things like pharmaceuticals more available to people who otherwise wouldn"t be able to afford them. Trust is huge in an informal economy. Same kind of stuff goes on in the united states but here, the companies just have to use bigger bribes. Ports are a big deal economic security-wise because boats are so big.
