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'''Discover the world’s open secrets, unwritten rules and hidden practices'''

The '''<nowiki>Global Informality Project</nowiki>''' is an interdisciplinary research project led by UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies. It provides the '''[[Explore the Online Encyclopaedia|first multimedia online resource]]''' that explores informal practices and structures from a global perspective. Through its comparative and ethnographic investigations, the encyclopaedia traces the existence of multiple moralities, which account for the resilience of informal practices, and investigates their legitimacy and institutional arrangements as well as the cultural and historical contexts of informality. This online resource is truly international: it includes entries from '''5''' continents, over '''75''' countries and over '''250''' researchers.

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* enables context-rich analysis and comparison of practices from all over the world;

[[Published Volumes and Analysis|Two printed volumes]], published in 2018 in the FRINGE series by UCL Press, explore the boundaries between informality and corruption, including the ambivalence of informal practices and their major implications for anti-corruption policy. We continue to assemble practices for our [[Explore the Online Encyclopaedia|online encyclopaedia]], with a purpose of developing a [[Joining the Global Informality Project|third volume of the Encyclopaedia]] in the near future.

'''[[Project events|See our past and upcoming events]]'''

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'''[[Joining_the_Global_Informality_Project|Contribute to the project]]'''

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'''Editor-in-Chief:''' Prof Alena Ledeneva ([mailto:a.ledeneva@ucl.ac.uk a.ledeneva@ucl.ac.uk])

'''Project Coordinator:''' Dr Petra Matijevic ([mailto:informality2014@gmail.com informality2014@gmail.com])

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File:GEI entries Mar13-Dec16_new.png|thumb|400px|left|'''Volume 1 and 2'''

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Our start-up small research grant was given by the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (5K). The book benefitted from Alena Ledeneva’s fellowship at the Paris Institute for Advanced Studies, with the financial support of the French State managed by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche, programme ‘Investissements d’avenir’ (ANR- 11- LABX- 0027- 01 Labex RFIEA+). The website and editorial activities were mainly supported by the dissemination funding of the European Union Seventh Framework Research Project, ‘Anti- corruption Policies Revisited: Global Trends and European Responses to the Challenge of Corruption’ (ANTICORRP, 2012– 17, Grant agreement No: 290529). We are grateful to our partners in the European Union’s Horizon 2020 project on ‘Closing the Gap Between Formal and Informal Institutions in the Balkans’ (INFORM, Grant agreement No. 693537). The UCL European Institute has helped with publication cost and dissemination and has been a supporter of the UCL-SSEES-IAS Centre for the Study of Social and Cultural Complexity (FRINGE). The cooperation with Digital Humanities was funded by the UCL Centre for Humanities Interdisciplinary Research Projects (CHIRP) in 2014– 16 (5K). Thank you to postgraduate students from the Digital Humanities programme – Yang Liu, Adriana Bastarrachea Santez, Yuan Guo, Orla Delaney, Binxia Xu, Xi Cao and Oksana Walsh – for helping keep the online database functioning and accessible. Thank you to Madeleine Nosworthy for her marketing expertise and website overhaul.