Integration of the informal sector into the formal economy could increase contribution of the informal sector to economic growth and poverty eradication.

(b) Indicators on informal sector and informal employment

The Logic of the Informal Economy

(a) Operationalization of the conceptual framework of informal employment and the informal economy

(i) Informal sector statistics

(i) Informal sector statistics

Items for information informal sector statistics

Greater attention must be given to the informal economy as it does not provide social protection and may deepen gender inequalities.

They're doing it through an outlaw thing, the informal economy.

(d) Interregional programme of technical cooperation on the measurement of the informal sector and informal employment

(e) Methods of evaluation of data quality of surveys on the informal sector and informal employment

Report of the Delhi Group on Informal Sector Statistics

A. Interregional cooperation on the measurement of the informal sector and informal employment

Even less information is available on the contribution of the informal sector to economic growth.

(e) Devising a checklist for the evaluation of data quality of surveys on the informal sector and informal employment

Most disturbingly, they may also significantly contribute to the expansion of the informal sector where workers most usually have no protection.

Since 1990, urban unemployment and informal employment have increased, and the number of those employed in the formal economy has been decreasing.

On the other hand, the income and quality of work of people engaged in the informal sector are in general considerably lower than those of workers in the formal sector.

These included (i) Namibia's initiative to carry out a full fledged survey of the informal sector and to introduce some questions on informal employment in the labour force surveys, (ii) the initiative of India to introduce a module on informal employment in the labour force survey undertaken from July 2004 to June 2005 and (iii) the efforts made by Fiji to estimate the contribution of the informal sector to its economy.

Women were also often employed in the informal employment market the Ministry of Trade was studying the extent of the problem of the informal economy with a view to bringing all workers, including women, into the formal, regulated economy where their rights could be protected, which would likewise provide increased revenue to the State.

9. It is estimated that more than 80 per cent of Djibouti enterprises operate in the informal and semi informal sectors, including a large number of informal microenterprises which play a key role in the economy of the country.

The discussion should be broadened to consider how to strengthen government institutions, and how corporations could contribute to reducing informal economic relationships by widening the formal economy.

In all regions, women predominate in informal economy.

6 Xaba J. and others, The Informal Sector in Sub Saharan Africa, Working Paper on the Informal Economy (Geneva, International Labour Office, 2002), p. 3, citing M. Chen, 2001.

Weak employment generation had brought an increase in informal employment, and the widening gaps between skilled and unskilled workers and between the formal and informal economies had contributed to persistent and deepening inequality worldwide.

Similarly, trade policies often ignored the informal sector, which constitutes a substantial segment of the economy of many developing countries.

It begins in the family, continues through formal, non formal and informal structures, and returns to the family.

Considering that this kind of economic activity was an important variable for the classification of informal sector activities, the Group recommended that the Chairman of the Group should take appropriate action to request that activities undertaken by informal sector enterprises be reflected in sufficient detail in ISIC, Rev.4.

The informal sector represents a fundamental component of the economic structure of many developing countries and countries in transition.

A large informal sector, often the result of excessive regulations, was a drag on development.

7. Urges all Governments to ensure women's equal rights with men and their full and equal access to education, training, employment, technology and economic and financial resources, including credit, in particular for rural women and women in the informal sector, and to facilitate, where appropriate, the transition of women from the informal to the formal sector

10. Urges all Governments to ensure women's equal rights with men and their full and equal access to education, training, employment, technology and economic and financial resources, including credit, in particular for rural women and women in the informal sector, and to facilitate, where appropriate, the transition of women from the informal to the formal sector

13. Urges all Governments to ensure women's equal rights with men and their full and equal access to education, training, employment, technology and economic and financial resources, including credit, in particular for rural women and women in the informal sector, and to facilitate, where appropriate, the transition of women from the informal to the formal sector

Urges all Governments to ensure women's equal rights with men and their full and equal access to education, training, employment, technology and economic and financial resources, including credit, in particular for rural women and women in the informal sector, and to facilitate, where appropriate, the transition of women from the informal to the formal sector

The lack of data on the informal sector and informal sector economic activities complicates economic planning, at the national and international levels, as well as the design, monitoring and evaluation of programmes policies aimed at promoting gender equality, eliminating child labour, creating employment and reducing poverty.

Despite their importance, the informal sector and informal employment are poorly covered, if at all, by official statistics.

The globalized environment was marked by shrinking economies and a reduction of employment opportunities, forcing many women into the informal sector.

CAMBRIDGE A specter is haunting the world s developing countries the specter of the informal economy. For some, the informal sector includes all businesses that have not been registered with the authorities.

There, women comprise as much as 60 per cent of the informal sector and 70 per cent of agricultural labour.

The project addresses all aspects of these issues surrounding measurement of the informal sector and informal employment and attempts to place these new data within a framework covering the economy as a whole.

Only 36.4 per cent of the country's women are economically active, as against 79.2 per cent of men.

The number of the new working poor rose steadily, as the informal sector was increasingly deprived of economic growth opportunities.

The Code's provisions on special working conditions cover domestic service, establishing that domestic workers are entitled to at least 12 hours' complete rest per day and that their employers must enrol them in the social security system.

The number of women working in the informal sector of the economy has increased rapidly in recent decades.

Furthermore, people in the informal economy, the gray economy as time goes by, crime is happening around them. And they can join the criminal world, or they can join the legitimate world.