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One repercussion of the argument that the organization describes the protection of social relationships is to turn the informal-formal debate inside-out: it is not the social quality of the developing world but the apparently unsocial nature of the developed world that requires explanation and a solution. Another is to render patronage—the hall mark of informality—a central principle in the patterning of big societies.
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Hodder, R. (2018). Informality. In: Small Business, Big Society. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8875-9_3
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