Public Policy Strategies for Reducing Informality in the Clothing Sector: Application of the Analytic Hierarchy Process

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https://doi.org/10.24023/FutureJournal/2175-5825/2019.v11i2.386

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Public Policies Strategies, Informality, Multicriteria Analysis Method, Clothing Sector, Agreste Pernambucano

Abstract

The goal of this study was to analyze public policies to encourage the reduction of informality in the Clothing Sector of Agreste Pernambucano, based on the multicriteria analysis method. Data from the analysis were collected through questionnaires with questions that compared the criteria (entrepreneurs with higher revenues, entrepreneurs with at least one employee and entrepreneurs involving the family in the business) and policy alternatives. Subsequently, the information collected for the application of the multi-criteria AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) method of decision support was used. Among the alternatives analyzed, such as the expansion of microcredit, tax reduction and increased inspection, this research has shown that the best policy to reduce informality in the Clothing Sector of Agreste Pernambucano is the expansion of microcredit.

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Author Biographies

José Cícero de Castro, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE, Campus Caruaru

Possui graduação em Administração pela Faculdade de Filosofia Ciências e Letras de Caruaru (2007) e mestrado em Economia - Campus Agreste pela Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (2013). Atualmente é professor da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - Centro Acadêmico do Agreste (UFPE/CAA). Áreas de Atuação: Logística e Cadeias de Suprimentos, Estratégia e Vantagem Competitiva e Análise Multicritério de Apoio à Decisão.

Monaliza de Oliveira Ferreira, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE, Campus Caruaru

Doutora em Economia pela Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE, Pernambuco, (Brasil). Professora Associada, lotada no Núcleo de Gestão do Campus Acadêmico do Agreste, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. 

Marconi Freitas da Costa, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE, Campus Caruaru

Doutor em Administração pela Universidade de São Paulo - USP, São Paulo, (Brasil). Professor da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE, Pernambuco, (Brasil). 

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2019-05-27

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Castro, J. C. de, Ferreira, M. de O., & Costa, M. F. da. (2019). Public Policy Strategies for Reducing Informality in the Clothing Sector: Application of the Analytic Hierarchy Process. Future Studies Research Journal: Trends and Strategies, 11(2), 176–196. https://doi.org/10.24023/FutureJournal/2175-5825/2019.v11i2.386

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