 While the formal economy might have been expanding relative to the informal economy in 2000, by 2006 this process had been reversed with growing informality.While rural municipios have smaller economies, they are not different than urban municipios in the share of the economy that is informal.Programs in the past that might move economic activity from the informal to the formal sector have not succeeded, suggesting public finance issues such as tax evasion will continue to plague the state with low government revenues.