The power of the informal economy

Title:: The power of the informal economy
Speaker:: Robert Neuwirth
Description:: Robert Neuwirth spent four years among the chaotic stalls of street markets, talking to pushcart hawkers and gray marketers, to study the remarkable "System D," the world's unlicensed economic network. Responsible for some 1.8 billion jobs, it's an economy of underappreciated power and scope.

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Video Language:: English
Team:: closed TED
Project:: TEDTalks
Duration:: 12:29

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