ICTD formalised its existing partnership with global research and advocacy network WIEGO on conducting research on informal ...

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Governments should harness the potential of informality as a bridge rather than a barrier to building economic resilience.

Nevertheless, coping with informality comes at a high cost to Maria and millions others. Because of her informal employment status, Maria's business is frequently subject to bribes and extortion.

As Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto once put it, informality is “the people’s spontaneous and creative reaction to the ...

If informality means nonremittance of taxes (or of some portion of the tax due), all but the large truthful firms are informal. But these informal firms are of very different types, and lumping them ...

Governments should harness the potential of informality as a bridge rather than a barrier to building economic resilience.Nigeria and South Africa are Africa’s largest economies, and their development ...

India heavily relies on the informal economy, employing over 80 per cent of its workforce, despite rapid economic growth. In both traditional and formal sector, informality persists due to limited ...

Executive Summary (of a World Bank report) Informal employment remains a salient and persistent feature of the Sri Lanka labor market, with around 70 percent of the work force informally employed.