This paper reviews the policy options and measures available for tackling informal sector entrepreneurship. Four possible policy options are critically reviewed: doing nothing, eradicating informal entrepreneurship; eradicating formal entrepreneurship and formalizing informal entrepreneurship. Concluding that the latter is the most feasible option, policy measures for formalizing informal entrepreneurship are then reviewed. On the one hand, the range of policy measures that can be used by enforcement authorities (tax authorities, labor inspectorates and social security institutions) responsible for tackling informal entrepreneurship are evaluated. On the other hand, and to tackle the broader structural determinants of informal entrepreneurship, macro-level reforms are identified by evaluating critically the validity of the purported determinants proposed in the modernization, political economy, neo-liberal and neo-institutionalist theories. The outcome is an understanding of the full range of policy initiatives required by governments seeking to formalize informal sector entrepreneurship.

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非正规部门创业的政策方法：概述

本文回顾了应对非正规部门创业的政策选择和措施。对四种可能的政策选择进行了批判性审查：什么都不做，消除非正规创业；根除正式的企业家精神并使非正式的企业家精神正规化。结论是后者是最可行的选择，然后审查了正规化非正规创业的政策措施。一方面，评估了负责打击非正规创业的执法部门（税务机关、劳动监察部门和社会保障机构）可以使用的政策措施范围。另一方面，为了解决非正式创业的更广泛的结构性决定因素，宏观层面的改革是通过批判性地评估现代化、政治经济学、新自由主义和新制度主义理论中提出的所谓决定因素的有效性来确定的。其结果是了解政府寻求正规化非正规部门创业所需的所有政策举措。