Informal economy, tax evasion, and poverty in a democratic setting: Greece

Mediterranean Quarterly

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 67-84

  Danopoulos, Constantine P ^a   Znidaric, Boris ^b  

^a SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOCRACY; ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; EUROPEAN UNION; INFORMAL SECTOR; INVESTMENT; POVERTY; TAX SYSTEM;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 34250695555     PISSN: 10474552     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/10474552-2007-006     Document Type: Article

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2. See N. Tatsos, Paraoikonomia kai Forodiafygi Stin Ellada (Athens: Papazisis, 2001), 26.
3. Tatsos, 29-34.
4. Ibid., 16.
5. Kalyvianakis, 23-4.
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12. Ibid., 324.
13. Vavouras, 162-3;
14. Kalyvianakis, 20.
15. For more details regarding the factors stimulating underground economic activity and tax evasion as well as the resulting impact, see Tatsos, 19-38,
16. and Kalyvianakis, 17-28.
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18. Ibid.
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22. CIA.
23. Ibid.
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27. CIA.
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29. WEF, 243-4.
30. Ibid., 239.
31. Maria Karamesini, "Anergia, ftohia kai koinonikos apoklismos stin Ellada," in Ftohia kai Koininikos Apokvismos, 412.
32. Data on poverty are drawn from the following sources: ibid., 399-438;
33. Papatheodorou and Petmesidou, "Anisotita, ftohia," 307-66;
34. Dimitris Venieris and Christos Papatheodorou, eds., I Koininiki Politiki stin Ellada (Athens: Ellinika Grammata, 2003);
35. and Panos Tsakloglou and Theodoros Mitrakos, "Inequality and Poverty in the Last Quarter of the 20th Century,:in Social Policy Developments in Greece, ed. Maria Petmesidou and Elias Mossialos (Aldershot, Eng.: Ashgate, 2006), 126-43.
36. Giannis Voulgaris, I Ellada tis Metapolitefsis (Athens: Themelio, 2001), 164-9.
37. Karamesini, 423-4.
38. Papatheodorou and Petmesidou, "Anisotita, ftohia," 341.
39. For more comparative details see Christos Papatheodorou and Maria Petmesidou, "Poverty Profiles and Trends: How Do Southern European Countries Compare with Each Other," in Poverty and Social Deprivation in the Mediterranean: Trends, Policies and Welfare Prospects in the New Millennium, ed. Maria Petmesidou and Christos Papatheodorou (London: Zed/CROP/ISSC, 2006), 47-94.
40. Papatheodorou and Petmesidou, "Anisotita, ftohia," 237.
41. Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan, Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), 5.
42. Ibid., 15.
43. Manos Matsaganis, "Muddling Through: The Trials and Tribulations of Social Security," in Social Policy Developments in Greece, 161.