In this article, we take a look at 25 countries with the highest informal employment in the world. If you would like to skip our detailed analysis of the informal economy, you can directly go to 5 ...

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The number of informal workers worldwide is rising, with 2.1 billion people expected to hold jobs lacking social protection, security, and labour rights by 2026, according to the latest report from ...

The report singles out the plight of migrant, women and domestic workers, many of whom lack formal employment. (ILO in Asia and the Pacific/ Flickr) This workforce includes self-employed, contract and ...

The International Labor Organization considers garment manufacturing in Asia as one despicable part of the bigger picture of the informal sector. Moons ago, I read a story shared by Koon Berkbandee, ...

PARIS -- More than half the world's workers, especially women in poor countries, are in informal jobs with low pay and no protections -- and the global economic downturn threatens to push the number ...

Remittances reinforce this system. Jamaica consistently ranks among the top countries globally in remittance inflows relative ...

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India must formalise employment through tax and GST reforms to boost jobs, the Indian Staffing Federation (ISF) says ...

In Burkina Faso, the informal sector contributes 20% to the country’s total GDP. 70% of the economically active urban population works within the informal sector. In 2016, a local startup, UX ...