Informal Sector

(b) Indicators on informal sector and informal employment

Items for information informal sector statistics

Integration of the informal sector into the formal economy could increase contribution of the informal sector to economic growth and poverty eradication.

(d) Interregional programme of technical cooperation on the measurement of the informal sector and informal employment

(e) Methods of evaluation of data quality of surveys on the informal sector and informal employment

Urbanization has given rise to a dynamic informal sector.

Report of the Delhi Group on Informal Sector Statistics

Report of the Delhi Group on Informal Sector Statistics

The role of the informal sector in generating employment opportunities

Despite their importance, the informal sector and informal employment are poorly covered, if at all, by official statistics.

Unleashing Africa's potential for development depends crucially on a dynamic private sector, including a strong informal sector.

(e) Devising a checklist for the evaluation of data quality of surveys on the informal sector and informal employment

The informal services sector plays an important role in developing countries.

National Statistics Office. (2001) Informal Sector Survey 2000. Port Vila NSO.

The general assumption that formal sector employment is preferred over informal sector activity also applies to Indonesian workers.

Indeed, 92 of the labor force is employed in the informal sector.

some 361,500 people (36.2 per cent) were employed in the informal sector.

11.7 The informal sector plays an important role in the Vanuatu economy.

Currently, a great many of these workers seek work in the informal sector.

From depositors point of view, participating in the informal sector is a rational choice.

On the other hand, young and unqualified labour is pushed into the informal sector.

For the informal sector the hours are variable as would be expected (NSO, 2001).

These laws do not for the moment cover the informal or the agricultural sector.

Women do not seem to making a preponderant proportion of the informal sector workers.

Presumably, then, they worked in the informal sector, or as paid hands on plantations.

In addition, women working in the informal sector did not have access to childcare.

Indeed, in some parts of southern China, the informal financial sector is growing to match the size of the formal financial sector.

The informal sector (i.e., small entrepreneurs, often self employed and operate outside of the formal sector) is large, particularly in developing countries.

(f) Further work on the measurement of the contribution of informal sector and informal employment to GDP, including work by regional and international organizations

The private sector has not experienced sufficient growth, and in the public sector, the State has been forced to reduce the number of State institutions, thereby reducing public sector employment, with the result that workers have had to seek employment in the informal sector. Consequently, 70 out of every 100 economically active women work in the informal sector in conditions of underemployment.

Moreover, a large proportion of women in the region are employed in the informal sector.

The latter is designed for the poorest sectors and the informal sector of the economy.

Even less information is available on the contribution of the informal sector to economic growth.

Women employees in the informal sector do not have a statutory right to maternity leave.

Strengthening the informal sector can play an important role in job creation for low income groups.

Ms. Fonseca (Venezuela) asked how UNIFEM addressed the fact that most informal sector workers were women.

There may also be a bias against recruiting women by some employers in the informal sector.

The informal retailing sector will have a role to play once markets are opened and formal retailing expands. FDI facilitates the switch from informal to formal retailing.

The delegation of Venezuela had rightly observed that most informal sector workers were women, who moreover were relegated to the lower ranks of that sector.

Certainly, many workers, specially in agriculture, have no other choice but to work in the informal sector.

However, the smaller scale economic activity occurs in the informal sector and is not reflected in GDP data.

Or they may contribute to the expansion of the informal sector where workers most usually have no protection.

(a) Identification, definition and development of a core set of indicators on informal sector and informal employment in line with the importance placed on informal employment by the Task Force on Education and Gender Equality of the United Nations Millennium Project

Yet rapid urbanization everywhere in Africa has given rise to a dynamic informal sector unconnected to the modern economy.