Journal of Theoretical Economics, 7(1): 2007. In developing countries, consumers can buy many goods either in formal markets or in informal markets and decide where to purchase based on the product's ...

Informal community-based supply, characterised by abstractions from surface water and shallow wells, is the main water supply source in the urban areas of developing nations. Formal sector supply has ...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/economia.16.2.143 Copy URL ABSTRACT This paper studies the link between credit conditions and formalization in Brazil. Over the last ...

Softening growth in the formal sector is beginning to weigh on overall credit growth, according to a report by HSBC Global Research. The report noted that, after a few years of strong growth, the ...

IS THE informal sector a poison pill to economic development or is it a by-product of stagnation and poverty? Academics who believe in the former typically argue either that entrepreneurs in the ...

Unemployment rates in the Middle East and North Africa have remained above 10 percent over the past decade, the highest in the world. For the young the rates are even more daunting, at a persistent 25 ...

NEW DELHI: Employment in nine non-farm formal sectors, including manufacturing, education, IT/BPO, and health, rose marginally by four lakh in the quarter ending March 2022, according to the fourth ...

Part 9 of this article series presents an implementation strategy for 24HE Outcome 5, that is, informal sector economic actors transitioned to the formal sector. It draws on the findings of the Ghana ...

The Fundo Activo de Capital de Risco Angolano, an Angolan venture capital fund that fosters the development of SMEs, is encouraging governments to invest in small businesses to make the most of the ...

MORE than half of all workers in Latin America are employed off the books in the informal economy. That share has barely fallen since 2003. Informal workers are excluded from safety-net programmes ...

Taxation plays invaluable role in the building and sustenance of national economies worldwide. It is used to bring in the needed revenue for national development. Generally, taxes are collected from ...