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<div class="mainpage_boxtitle">'''The ''Global Informality Project'' is a leading online resource for the world's open secrets, unwritten rules and hidden practices, broadly defined as 'ways of getting things done.' This global and growing collection of invisible, yet powerful informal practices is made possible by remarkable collaboration of scholars from five continents. The project:'''
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'''Discover the world’s open secrets, unwritten rules and hidden practices'''
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The '''<nowiki>Global Informality Project</nowiki>''' publishes a leading online resource for 'ways of getting things done.' The [[Explore the Online Encyclopaedia|'''online encyclopaedia''']] and the [[Published Volumes and Analysis|'''published volumes''']] of invisible, yet powerful informal practices are made possible by a remarkable collaboration of scholars from five continents.
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*The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality, Volume 3: A hitchhiker’s guide to informal problem-solving in human life is now available to download from the [https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/232613 UCL Press website]. Book launch [[events]] for Volume 3 of the Encyclopaedia [https://www.in-formality.com/wiki/index.php?title=Volume_3_Book_Launch_Events here]
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* Thanks to the collaboration with the World Economic Forum Strategic Intelligence team and input of the MARKETS researchers, we have published the [https://intelligence.weforum.org/topics/a1G68000000Kzl5EAC Informality map]
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Discover the world’s open secrets, unwritten rules and hidden practices

The Global Informality Project publishes a leading online resource for 'ways of getting things done.' The online encyclopaedia and the published volumes of invisible, yet powerful informal practices are made possible by a remarkable collaboration of scholars from five continents.

NEWS
  • The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality, Volume 3: A hitchhiker’s guide to informal problem-solving in human life is now available to download from the UCL Press website. Book launch events for Volume 3 of the Encyclopaedia here
  • Thanks to the collaboration with the World Economic Forum Strategic Intelligence team and input of the MARKETS researchers, we have published the Informality map
  • See our latest Newsletter
  • See our new Open Call on Informal Art

Read the most recent entries in the online encyclopaedia:


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ANTICORRP EU’s FP7 Grant No. 290529, ‘Anticorruption Policies Revisited: Global Trends and European Responses to the Challenges of Corruption.’
EU flag.jpg INFORM has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 693537.
MARKETS EU’s MSCA-ITN project 861034 ‘Mapping Uncertainties, Challenges and Future Opportunities of Emerging Markets: Informal Barriers, Business Environments and Future Trends in Eastern Europe, The Caucasus and Central Asia.’

The authors have asserted their rights under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the authors of this work.

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