The Shadow Economy and Social Change in North Korea.
North Koreans have relied on the shadow economy since the collapse of socialism in the 1990s, but little is known about the degree to which informal markets have influenced the country's everyday politics. Based on a large-scale survey of defectors, as well as interviews with almost 100 defectors, i...
| Publicado en: | Asian Studies Review Vol. 48; no. 2; pp. 289 - 313 |
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