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About the informal economy:
- Philippines: For decades, IS has kept expanding as joblessness grows, formal sector shrinks
- Venezuela: Unemployment and informal sector take 49.2% of Venezuela's market
- USA: Freedom Politics and the Informal economy
- India: The Rise of the Underground, Global Economics
- In the shadows: The informal economy is neither small nor benign
- New Zeland: Recession fears may boost black economy
- India, learn a lesson: Economic crisis may increase informal work but people in poverty become even more vulnerable
- Indonesia: The Informal sector helping to cope with the Recession
- Bolivia: Government faces economic dangers, how th einformal economy can help
- News of our increasingly informal globe: stealth of nations
Different reasons why people take up informal paid work:
- USA: Cleveland neighbourhood entrepreueaurs feed informal economy
- USA: Underground economy is the engine in Poor Neighbourhoods
- Latin America: Unemployment will push people into the informal economy
- Johannesburg,South Africa : Acknowledging the informal economy in employment levels Slight rise in number of people employed
- How social factors can drive people into the informal economy 'Don't Enslave Me": Why Some Workers in the Global South Prefer ...
- Pakistan : How the economic downturn will force more people into the informal economy Informal economy getting larger: PEW
- Global: How the recession can push young people into the informal economy Young and Jobless: The Effects of Economic Recession on the Youth
- Romania: highest Informal economy level in EU - understanding peoples motivations.
- Argentina: Unemployment and the informal eocnomy in the recession
- Asia: Asian Youth Driven into the Informal Sector
Understanding change needed:
- Media Newswire: Carers:informal workers should be given social security benefits
- World Shadow Economies poised to grow - read more
- India: The rapid growth of self employment as well as employment in informal Small and Medium Enterprises: Self-reliant, but insecure
- New Delhi, India: Contributions of micro units to development
- In Pakistan an example of the necessity to formalise informal work.Growth without jobs
- Western Cape: Small businesses should seek expert advice
- El Salvador: there is a direct relation between decent work and human development, full employment
- Peru: what creates the informality, in the specific case of Peru, is the lack of flexibility in the workforce.
- Hungary: Barriers to the labour market
- Poor, informal, Global
- Zimbabwe: Economic crisis and poor governence means an increase in the informal economy
- South Africa: Welfare to work programmes and the informal economy
- International: Informal jobs trap people in poverty
Why we must harness the informal economy and take people out of cash-in-hand work:
- Canada: Temp, part-time workers have more health problems
- Portland, USA: Entrepreneaurship against poverty
- South East Asia: Informal Economy may cut poverty
- Global: Effects of the recession on youth: pushing them into the informal economy and increasingly vulnerable
Examples of different countries taking positive action:
- Taxes
- Microfinance : a helping hand to climb out of the whole of poverty.
- Trade Unions
- Video from Great Britian on unions and the informal economy
- Global move on vulnerable workers World Day for Decent Work
- Global IGLO: vulnerable workers: women
- Nigerian Government redress decent work deficits for informal workers. Informal sector accounts for 90% of new jobs in Nigeria
- UNI Global Union encouraging business support Empowering women vital for unions
- South Africa: Support entrepreneurs Triggers that change the future
- Cape town: the challenge is how to transform the informal small business into sustainable businesses.
- Nepal: Strategic issues for trade union movement
- Burkina Faso:Informal economy at the centre of solidarity WATCH VIDEO HERE
- Government action specifically related to informal workers
- Constitution includes informal workers Unofficial tally: Ecuadoreans back new charter
- Brazil Government: migration of jobs from the informal “black” economy to the formal economy
- Microloans Enable Many Bolivians to Become Entrepreneurs
- About entrepreneurs: http://studentinbusiness.psu-main.com/entrepreneurship.html
- The bottom-up nature of such social programs has helped expand formal and informal employment as well as the Brazilian middle class.
- Pakistan's Planning Commission is finalising a new five year plan (2010-2015) aimed at improving investment climate by including informal sector into formal economy
- Honduras working towardsfreeing itself from the restraints of red tape
- The Gambia: Creating self employment opportunities in both the formal and informal market to tackle poverty
- Ghana: Employment rates increase due to harnessing the informal economy
- Ghana: Three Financial Institutions to develop the informal sector
- Taking action
- MediaGlobal Increased political participation among African women
- Kenya: the Entrepreneaur: Informal sector drives economic growth
- Cambodia:Supporting Entrepreneaurs
- Scotland: Improving Social Economy and Building a Better Future
- Europe: Combating undeclared work at a European level
- Combodia: Informal sector suffering. Keat Chhon, minister of economy and finance wants the informal sector to formalise.