Дуалістичний підхід до комплексного аналізу впливу тінізації економічної діяльності

Abstract

The current theoretical and empirical studies do not provide an unambiguous valuation of the nature of the impact of the shadow (or informal) sector of the economy on the dynamics of macro-economic growth of countries and regions. The shadow economy is characterized by clearly defined dualism, which acquires its concentrated expression in performing its double role in the development of the socio-economic system of society. On the one hand, it has a positive influence on the macro-economic growth of many countries, overcoming population poverty and socio-humanitarian backwardness; but on the other hand, it significantly exacerbates socio-economic, financial, tax-administrative and other problems that significantly hamper the scientific, technical, innovative and humanitarian progress of many countries over the world. Dualistic approach to a comprehensive analysis of the impact of shadowed economic activity on the structural dynamics of national and global development allows to clearly specify its threats and dangers. There is no doubt that the shadowing of economic activity leads to significant violations of the functioning of the national social sectors of the States for the following reasons: deepening asymmetry in the regional and intra-country distribution of income; carrying out socially unfair privatization of the State-owned objects; expansion of illegal production of goods and services, as well as structural deformation of public consumption. This not only causes an increase in the economies of different States of social instability and deepening of the intra-country asymmetry in the distribution of incomes of different groups of the population, but also sufficiently reduces the effectiveness of the instrumentarium used by their national governments to respond promptly to permanent changes in key quantitative and qualitative parameters of socio-economic development.