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