The Great Divide: India's formal manufacturing sector booms with 37% job growth, while 3.5 crore informal workers face a DECADE of stagnation.
Wage gap widening. Economy stratifying.

#India #InformalEconomy #Jobs #Manufacturing #EconomicInequality

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How is the Digital Transformation Affecting Informal Businesses in the Global South? A 16-Countries Rapid Survey

"The informal sector is by far the world’s largest employer. [...]The United Nations Development Program has detected signals that informal businesses are embracing digital tools […]

Thinking Beyond Revenue: Estimating the Cost Effectiveness of Ghana’s Presumptive Tax Stamp - ICTD This paper provides the first estimate of the cost effectiveness of a presumptive tax in a lower-income country, using Ghana as a case study.

Did you know that in Ghana, the Tax Stamp costs 9x more to administer than it collects?📈

New ICTD research explains why these lump-sum presumptive taxes often fail — and what governments can do instead: https://ow.ly/NtpT50XGZ5c

Max Gallien

#Taxation #TaxResearch #InformalTax #InformalEconomy

New article in PEJ:

“Effects of the informal sector on wages, sectoral competitiveness and economic growth” by Óscar Afonso & Ana Maria Bandeira.

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#PortugueseEconomicJournal #EconSky #InformalEconomy

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Tried today to make sense of #informality today and how and why I still want to use terms like #informaleconomy and #informaltransport. Problem is the distinction formal/informal is largely predicated on position a short and geographically limited form of capitalist regulation, #fordism, as norm […]

Kenya’s informal economy drives jobs but contributes little to tax revenue.
Not because workers evade, but because systems exclude them.
Ignoring the majority costs billions and deepens inequality.
#MovementMonitor #Kenya #TaxJustice #InformalEconomy

When 90% of informal workers can’t afford to pay taxes, it’s time to rethink what “tax fairness” means.

You can’t tax poverty, you can only tax prosperity.
#MovementMonitor #Nigeria #InformalEconomy #TaxJustice

On #WorldTourismDay2025 IUF-affiliated UA Zensen in Japan called for greater recognition & respect for young workers in hospitality & tourism industry through better paid, safe, secure jobs. Called for recognition, respect, & representation for workers in the #InformalEconomy @iloactrav.bsky.social

At the Annual General Council of FSPM in Indonesia, hotel & tourism members call for Recognition, Respect, and Representation for Tourism Workers in the informal Economy for #SustainableTourism @iloactrav.bsky.social #WorldTourismDay2025 #WTD2025 #InformalEconomy #HotelWorkers #TourismWorkers #Youth

Pakistan Hotel & Tourism Workers Federation call for Recognition, Respect, and Representation for Tourism Workers in the informal Economy for Sustainable Tourism!

#WorldTourismDay2025 @iloactrav.bsky.social #WTD2025 #SustainableTourism #InformalEconomy #HotelWorkers #TourismWorkers #YouthWorkers

青年ホテル＆ツーリズム労働者は 値する 質の高い仕事 適正な賃金 安全な仕事 ＆より良い未来 団体交渉を通じて

インフォーマル経済のツーリズム労働者は 必要としている 承認 尊敬 代表 すること 持続可能なツーリズムのために @iloactrav.bsky.social #WTD2025 #YoungWorkers #InformalEconomy

OnlineFirst - "The plat-formalisation fallacy" by Rich Mallett:

#informaleconomy #formalisation #digitallabourplatforms #motorcycletaxis #Uganda

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Toursim Workers in the Informal Economy need Recongnition, Respect, and Representation for Sustainable Tourism!

World Tourism Day, 2025

#WorldToursimDay #WTD2025 #SustainableTourism #InformalEconomy

Young Hotel & Tourism Workers deserve Quality Jobs, Good Wages, Safe Work, & A Better Future through Collective Bargaining!

World Tourism Day, 2025

#WorldToursimDay #WTD2025 #SustainableTourism #InformalEconomy #HotelWorkers #TourismWorkers #YouthWorkers

Jars are for pickles and jams, but we are producing something even spicier and sweeter.

Jar Collective is an antidote to digital overstimulation.

dhooop.metalabel.com

#InformalEconomy #CircularEconomy #Sustainability #Entrepreneurship #SmallBusiness #CreativeEconomy #SecondHand #SocialImpact

Hanken receives research funding to explore migrant entrepreneurship in Nordic's informal economy Hanken School of Economics, in collaboration with Umeå University, has received SEK 1 992 000 from the Peter Wallenberg Foundation to investigate the causes and impacts of migrant entrepreneurial enga...

Why do many migrants encounter barriers that lead them into the informal economy in Finland and Sweden? That’s what Hanken, together with @umeauniversitet.bsky.social, aims to find out – with support from the Peter Wallenberg Foundation.

#InformalEconomy

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Uganda’s Emyooga programme is proving what’s possible when informal workers get credit, skills, and collective organisation. The informal sector isn’t a gap in the economy it is the economy.
#DecentWork #InformalEconomy #AfricaLabour

Toward formalisation: Can simplified tax and social security contributions help? - ICTD As interest in simplified tax grows, African countries can look at Latin America for lessons learned from the informal sector.

Can simplified tax & social security schemes help formalise informal work?

While African countries are still experimenting with these approaches, lessons can also be drawn from Latin American reforms.

More in this blog➡️
www.ictd.ac/blog/path-fo...

#Tax #InformalEconomy #SocialProtection
@ilo.org

Interview: Blue Growth Series Attracts Over 340 Entrepreneurs, Spotlight on Informal Sector Standard Bank’s latest entrepreneurship initiative — the Blue Growth Series — has received over 340 applications within two weeks, with close to half coming from the local informal economy. This...

#Entrepreneurship #BlueGrowth #InformalEconomy #BusinessDevelopment #StandardBank

ICTD, WIEGO extend research partnership on informal sector taxation - ICTD ICTD formalised its existing partnership with global research and advocacy network WIEGO on conducting research on informal sector taxation.

#ICYMI: We're delighted to share that we've signed an MoU with global research and advocacy network WIEGO, formalising our long-standing collaboration on research and informal sector taxation! 🎉

Read about it here 👉 ow.ly/z19W50WtR0L

#TaxExperts #InformalEconomy #TaxPolicy #TaxResearch

Cambodia is rolling out a new M&E framework to empower its informal economy—boosting accountability, data use, and policy impact. A big step toward inclusive growth and better livelihoods. 📊💼
Read more: www.khmertimeskh.com...
#Cambodia #InformalEconomy #Monitoring #Policy #InclusiveGrowth

Art card showing a zoomed out image of the Addis Ababa skyline, with skyscrapers of varying shape foregrounded by a field of green. It bears the text "2025 ATI General Assembly: Domestic Revenue Mobilisation: a turning point for achieving the SDGs"

🟢 Research has shown that common strategies of taxing informal economies have largely been ineffective & regressive, disproportionately impacting low-income groups.

So what works?

Join our session at the #ATIGA2025 to discuss best practices & more ➡️ ow.ly/bJT750Wsujt

#Taxation #InformalEconomy

#InformalEconomy Addis Abeba's newfound push for public safety has put informal economy workers in an uncertain position.

Read more - ow.ly/G8Ux50WqlSt

Ranked: "The World’s Biggest Shadow Economies" (Plus- sewer turtles)

From the casual to the criminal: roughlydaily.com/2025/06/06/b...

#crime #culture #economics #history #informaleconomy #labor #sewer #shadoweconomy #greyeconomy #snappingturtle #taxes #turtle

Economic Cost of Afghan Deportation - Stratheia How a country goes about these two things—security and development, as well as practical decision-making and empathetic leadership

Deporting Afghan workers may help border control, but it wrecks decades-old trade, labor, and financial ecosystems.
#NationalSecurity #InformalEconomy #Pakistan
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