The Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprise (CPPE) has warned that Nigeria’s ongoing tax reform drive could undermine the ...

There exists in South Africa a comforting myth that the informal sector serves as a “fallback” for those who have lost employment in the formal sector. The National Development Plan states that the ...

The lack of high-frequency real-time economic indicators make it hard to track India’s large informal sector, which employs c80% of the labour force and produces c50% of the GDP. Proxying informal ...

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

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 ...

Last year, Nedbank, in partnership with Synthesis, Mastercard and Visa, released the first tap-on-phone technology in Africa, allowing anyone with a compatible handset to convert their phone into a ...

The informal sector is a major part of the current global economy. It is estimated that approximately two billion people make their living from the informal economy and that the African continent has ...

The informal sector in India dominates agriculture and allied services, the non-agricultural sector, and micro, small, and medium enterprises, except in finance, public administration, and defence, ...

What was done to migrant labourers all over India during Covid-19 should never have happened. However, this is part of a larger malaise. We need to examine why it happened and what needs to be done if ...

There has been a lot of discussion on the possible adverse impact of the three major structural changes in the Indian economy, — demonetisation, introduction of Goods & Services Tax and pandemic and ...

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

After the first shock of the pandemic, India's corporate sector has recovered quite well as reflected by GST collections consistently exceeding Rs 1 lakh crore in recent months and the buoyancy in the ...