Sentence examples for informal transactions from inspiring English sources

Citizens tend to avoid engaging in formal participation processes as the prevalent parallel system based on informal transactions with political leaders is perceived to be more effective than the formal planning system.

Mr Schneider attributes this reversal to the financial crisis, which seems to be pushing more people in OECD and EU countries to avoid the extra burden of taxation by resorting to informal transactions.

Informal transactions make up at least sixty per cent of economic activity; at stoplights and on highways, crowds of boys as young as eight hawk everything from cell phones to fire extinguishers.

Mr Mathews identifies Chungking Mansions as "a central node in low-end globalisation", by which he means "the transnational flow of people and goods involving relatively small amounts of capital" and informal transactions that mark "the developing world".

While the vast majority of trade still occurs through informal transactions in corner shops, and to a lesser degree in shopping malls, there is a slow, steady shift from offline to online.

Conway estimates the war memorabilia market at $1 billion a year, including informal transactions, and he says that World War II accounts for "about 50% of the spectrum".

Two years ago, though, Mr. Cohen was interviewed by city investigators and described the 2003 loan as an informal transaction.

Limited intelligent policies monitoring "informal" financial transactions between the United States and Central American Nations with attendant surcharge and tariff components should also be considered to help defray the cost of a comprehensive border solution.

Informal cannabis transactions are harder to detect because they're usually executed discreetly: 80percentt indoors, and a similar percentage among friends or family.

This may well reflect the situation that in the informal economy many transactions are not monetized and the possession of assets is a more reliable indicator of socioeconomic status [ 39].

Given the informal nature of transactions in this sphere, even an audit may miss some forms of opportunism, such as siphoning off of community funds that are paid in cash without any paper trail (e.g. receipts to parents or community donors).