Jobs in the informal sector grew 15% year-on-year to surpass 15 crore in Jan-March 2026, driven by a 17% rise in ...
The unincorporated non-agricultural sector recorded a notable 15.5% year-on-year growth in employment during the ...
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 ...
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 ...
People trained in the informal sector are equally skilled or better than those who attended formal training. ALEXANDER JOE/AFP via Getty Images The informal sector plays an important role in the ...
A viral video has exposed another lucrative side of informal jobs in Ghana, as an Agogo plantain seller shared that he earns ...
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 ...
Jobs in the informal sector grew nearly 15% (yo-y), breaching the 15-crore mark for the first time in JanMarch 2026 from 13.1 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...