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SEPANG: The informal sector, which includes hawkers, petty traders, food entrepreneurs and farmers' market traders, is the ...

For years now, the informal sector has been a key economic hub in many parts of the world. As various findings have put it, the economic contribution of the informal sector in most developing ...

Anthony Kim is a research fellow in economic freedom, editor of the Index of Economic Freedom, and manager of global engagement in the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at The Heritage Foundation.

Justine Olawande Daramola receives funding from the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), National Research Foundation (NRF), and other International Grant Funding Organizations like ...

The Retirements Benefits Authority (RBA) is targeting the informal sector in its new ambitious goal of Sh3.2 trillion in pension assets by 2029. The authority, in its latest 2024-2029 strategic plan, ...

The city has a chequered history of managing informal traders. In October 2025, Johannesburg authorities removed informal traders from De Villiers Street in the heart of the city’s central business ...

Lagos State Bureau of Statistics (LBS), in partnership with Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN), has urged stakeholders in informal sector to provide factual data to ...

The debate on workplace well-being has largely focused on corporate employees, sidelining the informal sector that employs ...

The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) announced that the PSA Board approved the conceptual and operational definitions of ...

In this interview by SAM NWAOKO, Mr Taiwo Oyedele, Chairman of the Presidential Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms Committee, discusses the objectives, key provisions, and expected impact of Nigeria’s new ...

SIR: Whatever the standpoint, there is no doubt that the informal sector, particularly in developing economies, remains the bedrock for economic emancipation of the downtrodden. The Lagos example ...