Growing informal economy in Ciudad Guayana
Written by Editor
Saturday, May 23, 2009
The increase of informal traders in Ciudad Guayana is in sight, no need to deploy surveys, just a walk around the outskirts of the commercial centers of San Felix and Puerto Ordaz to reach a conclusion.

Although unemployment rates in Venezuela show a considerable decrease in the last 10 years, the economy in the country is showing to be unable to generate permanent jobs, so people will manage to become informal traders generate their own profits with the hope to gain a big business.
The increase of informal traders in Ciudad Guayana is in sight, no need to deploy surveys, just a walk around the outskirts of the commercial centers of San Felix and Puerto Ordaz to reach a conclusion.

If it is true that unemployment in Venezuela has decreased considerably because a large proportion of the unemployed are employed in the informal economy, some implementations a place to work, while others learn to travel around the country with the calendar in your hand highways, traffic lights and streets. They have a work area but not point of sale, a festive time is reason enough for them to be part of a show.

On the other side are those who also have a job, he managed to assemble an informal business that does not comply with the legal regulations of a State, such as labor standards or cancellation of national and municipal taxes, is shedding the objective of income Fixed monthly although having prospered in the informal economy have to be formalized as traders, many Venezuelans that is the goal.

It is for this reason that can be seen increasingly in the streets of Guayana new stalls pies, hot dogs, and chicha, the most common calls. Not to mention the street vendors of traffic lights, which sold the apartment in downtown San Felix, the tables where they sell the "sweets" in front of corporate buildings and stop for you.

Examples of this are the faithful stalls located in the parking lot side of the CVG in Alta Vista, or how many people are uploaded to the public transport units sold from ice cream to juices and romantic cards.




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In the case of empanaderas, shoe rentals, telephones etc. In your local improvisation tend to descuadrar the visual harmony of the city, obviously there is no body that regulates such actions and if there is not working, much less there are those who denounce the exception of formal traders in the surrounding areas are invaded by these people, the subject of a post move is to play an informal sense of unemployment that victimizes the informal trader in question.

This amount of people that practically form a guild that have not been organized, they lack a suitable work environment, and only together can improve the space where desvuelven; an organizational plan for these traders would create fair that in exchange for a embellecería tax amount to pay the city.

But the same tax form factor is a contradiction, since the implementation of efficient and effective stewardship and control the sale of these merchants will continue to do the same vicious circle, illustration, where traders buy goods that are illegal today is a fundamental factor in the growth of the informal sector as the prices they do collect a lot of customers, thrive and not any taxes paid to the State.




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In addition to the smuggling of goods, piracy is also a factor contributing to the economy, the record industry has been one of the most serious casualties in the growing informal economy. The losses caused to the record is abysmal, because if it is felt that a CD "burning" can cost around a strong bolívar while the original can reach 20 bolivars strong if we talk about music, when we talk about movies in the value loss is incalculable.