The challenges of informality
The Long Shadow of Informality: Challenges and Policies
This study is the first comprehensive analysis of the extent of informality and its implications for a durable economic recovery and for long-term development.
The challenges of informality - World Bank Blogs
A large informal sector is associated with low productivity, reduced tax revenues, poor governance, excessive regulations, and poverty and income inequality.
The Global Informal Economy: Large but On The Decline
The informal economy is generally associated with low productivity, poverty, high unemployment, and slower economic growth. It is also more ...
The Long Shadow of Informality | Cities Alliance
It finds that pervasive informality is associated with significantly weaker economic outcomes—including lower government resources to combat recessions, lower ...
Informality & the Informal Sector | VoxDevLit | VoxDev
This VoxDevLit examines informality, including the challenges, advantages and causes of the informal sector, alongside it's economic impacts ...
Statistics on the informal economy - ILOSTAT
However, informality puts workers at a higher risk of vulnerability and precariousness. It has a strong adverse impact on the adequacy of earnings, occupational ...
Social Impacts In The Informal Economy | Anthesis Group
Contents · What is the reason for the informal economy? · What are the social impacts of informality? · Social justice issues in the informal ...
What is the informal economy and how many people work in it?
Understanding the scale, impact and challenges of informal work is crucial for creating inclusive policies and sustainable development.
In Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire), 90% of women have informal jobs compared with 70% of men (Vanek et al., 2014). Similarly, young people are over-represented in the ...
The challenges of reducing informal employment - VoxDev
We examine how increasing the cost of informal employment affects formal-sector firms and workers in Mexico. Even formal firms can engage in tax evasion.
Challenges of Organizing Informal Workers - WIEGO
Political and Conceptual Challenges · A Lack of Legal Protection and Clear Negotiating Counterparts · Poverty and Vulnerability · Diverse Workplaces.
Challenges and opportunities of partnering with the informal sector
We start by identifying the importance and pervasiveness of India's informal sector organizations—the waste pickers and ragpickers—as central to ...
The Informal Economy and Inclusive Growth
The Informal Economy and Inclusive Growth · The reality is that far too many governments face difficulties in measuring informality · Informality ...
Engendering informality statistics: gaps and opportunities
The revision of standards is an opportunity to focus attention on where the significant challenges and gaps remain. Data and gender analysis are needed to ...
The 'informal' economy presents a key challenge for developing-nation policymakers due to its labour-market and tax-revenue implications.
Policies to address the challenges of existing and new forms of ...
The concept of the informal economy, thus formulated, is broader than that of the informal sector, and recognizes that labour informality is also present in ...
The Long Shadow of Informality : Challenges and Policies.
A large percentage of workers and firms operate in the informal economy, outside the line of sight of governments in emerging market and developing ...
The Informal Economy: an Employer's Approach
2. Informality can often entail greater financial risks for workers and businesses, or lower returns for their efforts. It can present additional challenges for ...
Mexico | Informality, the great absentee in public policy
Mexico faces significant structural economic challenges, with informality standing out as one of the most complex to address.
Smart city planning and the challenges of informality in India
We show how informality challenges the understanding of the smart city. We analyse how this phenomenon is framed in smart city planning.