and Finance and Investment Promotion Minister Mthuli Ncube’s recent remarks about the role of the informal sector offer little hope for resolution. Ncube placed blame on the informal sector for ...

QUEZON CITY (PIA) – The Pag-IBIG Fund launched on Thursday a raffle promo where participants may win up to P500,000 to encourage OFWs and informal sector workers to become members of the Fund.

GOVERNMENT will soon announce a raft of measures to support the survival of the formal sector and ensure the informal sector complies with legal requirements such as tax compliance, Finance, Economic ...

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 ...

The Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) said it would broaden its Employee Compensation Scheme (ECS) to include more employees in the informal sector in 2025. According to the managing ...

The Zimbabwean government has once again embarked on a futile mission to regulate the informal sector, a behemoth that has long outgrown the state’s capacity to control it.

The ministry of statistics and programme implementation is exploring new data sources for estimating the informal sector within the revised GDP series, with a base year of 2022-23. Sectors such as ...

Zimbabwe’s informal sector has become a lifeline for many, particularly during critical periods such as the current back-to-school season. Citizens are increasingly relying on informal traders ...

Olubunmi Kole-Dawodu, has revealed that over 50 million informal businesses operate in Lagos. Speaking at the Stakeholder’s Forum on Economic Data Performance, organized by the Lagos Bureau of ...

THE Zimbabwe Chamber of Informal Economy (Zciea) has amplified its calls for council to stop criminalising vendors and confiscating their goods amid a deep economic crisis. For years, vendors and ...

Furthermore, the gruelling nature of their jobs traps them in a cycle of debt, where they are forced to borrow from informal sources at high-interest rates to cover two months' worth of missed ...

is a big cash crop through Papua New Guinea and a big-time income generating crop in the informal sector, according to a state minister. The golden nut, as many proclaim to be the “green gold” is one ...