The city has a chequered history of managing informal traders. In October 2025, Johannesburg authorities removed informal traders from De Villiers Street in the heart of the city’s central business ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last year, Nedbank, in partnership with Synthesis, Mastercard and Visa, released the first tap-on-phone technology in Africa, allowing anyone with a compatible handset to convert their phone into a ...

SEPANG: The informal sector, which includes hawkers, petty traders, food entrepreneurs and farmers' market traders, is the ...

What was done to migrant labourers all over India during Covid-19 should never have happened. However, this is part of a larger malaise. We need to examine why it happened and what needs to be done if ...

The informal sector is a major part of the current global economy. It is estimated that approximately two billion people make their living from the informal economy and that the African continent 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 ...

The debate on workplace well-being has largely focused on corporate employees, sidelining the informal sector that employs ...

Like most developing countries, Sri Lanka, has a large informal sector work force. The term “informal sector” refers to workers who perform an entirely legal task, are paid for their labour in cash, ...

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, ...