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The (Im)Moralities of Informality: States, Their Citizens and Conflicting Moral Orders

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To most, if not all, people active in the anti-corruption industry, this transaction that I witnessed has all the features of a bribe. The nurse could (or should) have refused the money since she had already a salary paid from the state and was not going to declare that extra income. But such a gesture has a different meaning in a hospital in London and Kyiv. In the latter context, doctors would work long hours for a salary that is a fraction of what they need to get to the end of the month.

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This book benefited from EU funding European Commission [H2020-MSCA-RISE-2018-Shadow, grant no: 778118 and H2020-MSCA-RISE2019-New Markets, grant no: 824027]. The book was finalized during a research stay in Kyoto funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Visiting Fellowship Scheme (2020/2021).

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Polese, A. (2022). The (Im)Moralities of Informality: States, Their Citizens and Conflicting Moral Orders. In: Polese, A. (eds) Informality, Labour Mobility and Precariousness. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82499-0_1

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