THE informal sector in Tanzania is the lifeblood of the nation’s economy, providing livelihoods for mil lions and serving as ...

Street traders play an important role in tourism in South Africa. They provide affordable goods to tourists while generating ...

The ministry of statistics and programme implementation is exploring new data sources for estimating the informal sector ...

The discussion focused on improving the methodology for estimating the informal sector’s contribution and integrating new ...

Gross Domestic Product measures the quantum of economic activities in a country, in monetary terms, over some time, usually ...

The National Pension Commission has revealed that 12,241 Retirement Savings Account holders from the informal sector have contributed about N967.19m between 2020 and the third quarter of 2024 ...

Zimbabwe’s economic crisis continues to worsen, and Finance and Investment Promotion Minister Mthuli Ncube’s recent remarks about the role of the informal sector offer little hope for resolution.

any state action to restrict legitimate informal sector activities is perverse. The most useful short-term policy intervention is to minimise state harm to informal firms, many of which are routinely ...