The Financial Express

Rising capital intensity: Decoding India’s informal sector amid policy shifts

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, ...
MyJoyOnline

Taxation of the informal Sector in Ghana: Challenges, policy perspectives and the way forward

Taxation plays invaluable role in the building and sustenance of national economies worldwide. It is used to bring in the needed revenue for national development. Generally, taxes are collected from ...
CU Boulder News & Events

Regulating an Experience Good Produced in the Formal Sector of a Developing Country when Consumers Cannot Identify Producers

Journal of Theoretical Economics, 7(1): 2007. In developing countries, consumers can buy many goods either in formal markets or in informal markets and decide where to purchase based on the product's ...

Taxing Africa’s informal economies: technology’s promise and pitfalls

Changes in the development finance world – especially the sharp drop in foreign aid and fewer cheap loans for low-income countries – have pushed taxation back into the spotlight. Africa has entered a ...
The Nation Newspaper

Lagos moves to streamline informal sector for GDP growth

Lagos State Bureau of Statistics (LBS), in partnership with Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN), has urged stakeholders in informal sector to provide factual data to ...
Next City

It’s Time for Accra to See the Informal Realm Not as a “Sector,” But as People

An informal trader at Kantamanto market. “Africa is people!” Three words, the central, frustrated and hopeful thesis of Chinua Achebe’s final compilation of essays. As I read his essays, I kept ...
The Africa Report

Coronavirus: Nigeria’s informal economy hit hard

These are the individuals and micro-enterprises whose economic well-being is birthed and buoyed on the fringes of the formal economy; business activities that remain unregulated, and oftentimes, ...
News Day

Govt tightens noose on informal sector

HARARE, Jan 31 (NewsDay Live) - Government has introduced stringent measures to protect the formal sector from unfair competition posed by the informal sector. In a statement released Friday following ...
The Nation Newspaper

Providing affordable housing to informal sector

For many members of the lower and middle classes, home ownership remains a life-long dream. Due to the huge cash required to either buy or build a house, they are unable to make their dream a reality.
Leadership

PenCom Launches Awabah, Targets Pension Expansion To 75m Informal Sector Players

The Director-General of the National Pension Commission (PenCom), Ms. Omolola Oloworaran, has described personal pensions as ...
Mena FN

Rising Wage Gap Between Formal And Informal Sector To Expand Informality Further: FISME

(MENAFN- KNN India) New Delhi, Dec 28 (KNN) India's unincorporated non-agricultural enterprises surged to 7.34 crore in 2023-24, marking a 12.84 per cent increase from the 6.5 crore recorded in ...