Redistribution must recognise that most workers are in informal employment.
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South Africa shouldn’t settle for a future in which millions who are willing and able to work go hungry while the country waits for the formal sector to grow.
Traders in the informal economy need a supportive ecosystem so they can move beyond survival and contribute to local growth and development.
A just transition to a green economy with broad growth in employment will require deliberate efforts.
Working within existing informal regulations in Kenya’s sand industry would help boost livelihoods and inclusion.
Informal governance is both a survival mechanism and a structure of power.
Digital work can be experienced as more dignified than the available alternatives – if rules and pay are fair.
Street vendors in Ghana face a daily battle with city authorities.
Recognising informal traders would help create a more robust tourism sector in South Africa.
Citizens willingly pay taxes in return for government using these resources to provide services such as education and health.
Uganda Revenue Authority has turned its focus on small traders and VAT law enforcement after the World Bank funding freeze.
Our study of food delivery workers in one English city highlights the daily challenges facing undocumented migrants in this sector.
Domestic resource mobilisation cannot be achieved by over-taxing the livelihoods of the most vulnerable workers in the informal sector.
A slowdown in price rises, combined with the shift to less aggressive rate hikes, is good news for the minister’s budget initiatives on growth.
Urban expansion in Sub-Saharan Africa and the need for daily mobility
The city’s street trading management approach is mainly restrictive. Relocations, harassment and confiscation of of traders’ stock are common.
The tax on electronic transactions has not generated as much revenue as the government of Ghana expected.
Skills training in Zimbabwe excludes students from poor backgrounds. The informal sector should be used as a training ground for them.
Mozambique’s trade unions have not been a strong force in society – which has left a space for others to fill.
As Zimbabwe heads for 2023 presidential elections, there are key things voters should watch out for in the social protection promises made by candidates.
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