Ð This paper illustrates the limitations of ocal statistics on the informal sector with the case of homebased women workers: this is, women who work from their homes as own-account producers or subcontract workers. After noting that ocial statistics in most countries do not classify homebased subcontract work as such, the authors review the available data on both types of homebased work. The ...

The informal sector plays a very important role in the development of the economies of nation. In Africa, the majority of the informal sector organisations are involved in small businesses and social services that are vital to economic development. Apart from laying the foundation for promoting the evolution of large firms that ultimately dominate the formal sector, it also provides employment ...

Informal employment is a pervasive and persistent feature of most developing and developed economies. Labour taxation and labour market regulations are deemed two major causes for operating in the informal sector. Using data from France, Italy, and Spain, we analyse gross job flows and gross worker flows in the formal and informal sectors in the presence of lenient employment protection legisla...

This paper considers strengths and weaknesses of the informal and formal seed as a basis for seed sector development. The informal seed sector is defined as the total of farmers’ seed production, selection and seed exchange activities. Farmers play an important role in seed supply but they are generally not considered as a partner in the seed sector. Seed produced by farmers is still the most i...

provision of services by public sector providers overseen directly by National TB Programs (NTP). However, a majority of people first seek care in the non-NTP sector, even among the very poor [1], and one key reason for the missing millions is the patients who are managed in the informal and private sectors, but either not diagnosed, or not notified to NTPs. The private and informal sector rang...

a r t i c l e i n f o JEL classification: D42 F21 F22 O17 Keywords: Informal credit Formal credit Moneylender Foreign capital Emigration General equilibrium This paper makes an attempt to provide a theory of determination of interest rate in the informal credit market in a less developed economy in terms of a three-sector static deterministic general equilibrium model. There are two informal se...

Formalizing a concept developed by de Soto (1989), I construct a simple general equilibrium model of the informal sector. Agents in the economy can choose to be entrepreneurs in the formal or informal sector, or work in the labor market. Government rent-seeking and bureaucracy leads to a bifurcation in the size of firms: small informal firms and large formal firms. The empirical implications of...

The study was conducted to investigate the contribution of entrepreneurship education in technical training colleges in enhancing management skills of informal sector entrepreneurs in Kenya. A case study of informal sector operators in Nairobi was conducted. Qualitative data was collected using indepth interviews and observations. The data was analyzed using the grounded theory. Findings of the...

The Informal Sector in Solid Waste is a Global Phenomenon 1. There are active informal solid waste sectors in cities of widely varying demographic, socioeconomic and geographic characteristics. 2. In spite of specific and measurable differences in the set-up and effectiveness of the formal solid waste systems in the six cities, and the degree to which these are modernised or privatised, there i...