A group of African woman walking on their way home in Zimbabwe. The informal sector has potential to harness small sustainability benefits. Shutterstock In most African cities, the informal sector is ...

There exists in South Africa a comforting myth that the informal sector serves as a “fallback” for those who have lost employment in the formal sector. The National Development Plan states that the ...

Efforts to slow the spread of Covid-19 have seriously disrupted the economy, but it is informal workers who have been disproportionately affected. Not only has the government lockdown exposed how ...

A larger part of the world’s working population earns a living from the informal economy. Informality refers to non-registration of business for taxation and incorporation purpose. The International ...

Government and the private sector needs to change the framing around the informal economy if the stubbornly high unemployment rate and sluggish economic growth are to be tackled, according to author ...

The lack of high-frequency real-time economic indicators make it hard to track India’s large informal sector, which employs c80% of the labour force and produces c50% of the GDP. Proxying informal ...

Understanding how people move through job sectors is crucial. Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock South Africa has a jobs crisis. In the fourth quarter of 2018, 6.14 million people were out of work, ...

Recently, Indian GDP measurement came under considerable discussion in the media on account of an observation emanating from the Niti Aayog based on a projection made by the World Bank—that India has ...

Pedestrians walk past street vendors along St Bendicto Kiwanuka Street last week. Informal businesses operate in open areas such as streets, lake shores and containers or their homes. PHOTO BY STEPHEN ...

There has been a lot of discussion on the possible adverse impact of the three major structural changes in the Indian economy, — demonetisation, introduction of Goods & Services Tax and pandemic and ...

The informal sector in India dominates agriculture and allied services, the non-agricultural sector, and micro, small, and medium enterprises, except in finance, public administration, and defence, ...