International human rights standards should be applied in practice in the formal and non formal justice sector.

The general assumption that formal sector employment is preferred over informal sector activity also applies to Indonesian workers.

The informal sector (i.e., small entrepreneurs, often self employed and operate outside of the formal sector) is large, particularly in developing countries.

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

Consequently, the majority of land and property disputes are mediated by the non formal justice sector.

According to available assessments, labour in the formal sector is much older than it was in 1990.

The average age of those employed in the formal sector has considerably increased, from age 36.6 in 1991 to 40 in 2000 (World Bank data, November 2002), which means that only limited numbers of the young workforce have got jobs in the formal sector, so a majority is employed in the informal sector.

The informal retailing sector will have a role to play once markets are opened and formal retailing expands.

Please provide data with regard to the formal sector, on horizontal (i.e., according to sector) and vertical (i.e., according to rank) job segregation and wages disaggregated by sex.

There is low labor market for women in the formal sector, but women's share in management positions is worse.

In the end, it is the crippled financial system that is driving the wedge between China s large surplus of capital and formal financing for the country s SMEs. Indeed, in some parts of southern China, the informal financial sector is growing to match the size of the formal financial sector.

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.

Its main focus is on strengthening the Somali remittance sector to increase its compliance with international financial regulations and laying the groundwork for the entry of a formal commercial banking sector.

Women's involvement in the formal sector has mainly been urban based, mostly as civil servants in the health and education sectors.

Overall employment in Bosnia and Herzegovina is about 999,500 persons, of which 638,000 (63.8 per cent) are employed in the formal sector.

The LSMS analysis showed that 18 per cent of employees in the informal sector were under 25, and 7 per cent in the formal sector, the main reason being the level of the minimum wage.

The report recommends abolishing these impediments and enhancing transparency in the formal sector through effective monitoring and supervision, thereby drying up the illegal activities.

International support must yield results based action which will unleash Africa's human potential and the economic potential of the formal and informal private sector.

Advancing the development of informal and private sector activities will be crucial for job creation and income generation in the short term as the formal sector currently lacks sufficient capacity and the country's infrastructure remains weak.

Coordination and efficiency of procedures would be of great help to investors, and heavy taxation would only favour the informal business sector over the formal.

Developing country governments should reduce the share of the informal sector in an economy, through reform of the overall enabling environment for the formal economy.

The Team notes the commitment of the Group of 20 to remove impediments identified as reasons for the use of the informal sector and to enhance transparency in the formal sector aimed at drying up the illegal activities.

The third and final point concerns the establishment of a more formal forum for dialogue with civil society organizations, non governmental organizations and the private sector.

Additionally issues such as mobility, security and workplace environment also have a significant bearing in women decision to joint the workforce either in formal or informal sector.

Data on employment was also lacking, but there was in fact no discrimination in the formal and public sector, where appointments were made on an open and equal footing.

Not only were the educational elite seeking better paying jobs in the formal sector of the labor market but also those with secondary education were hopeful of finding such openings.

They have the same right to education, formal and non formal.

UNCDF has identified the integration of microfinance into the formal financial sector as an effective means of contributing on a sustainable basis to poverty reduction and the achievement of the MDGs.

The perception of gender roles in Ghanaian society was gradually changing women's domains had expanded considerably into formal sector professions and their public roles in political and civil organizations had increased.

Formal system

formal requirements

Formal statements

The various forms of discrimination which women encounter in the workplace, whether in the formal or informal sector of the economy, call for greater efforts to enforce labour laws, shrink the gender pay gap and improve women's working conditions, especially in the maquila sector and domestic service.

Prevention should include promoting the use of the formal financial sector while, at the same time, ensuring control of informal transfer systems, registering financial dealers and requiring the reporting of suspicious transactions.

The record of the last 20 years shows that the Chinese monetary and banking authorities have a habit of taking an ostrich approach to the informal financial sector, pretending that they are regulating the sector until serious problems emerge. This approach cannot last forever, and changing it means acknowledging the backwardness of the formal financial sector and taking remedial action.

At the same time give a policy for a lot more people to be in the formal sector, and create the jobs for the millions of people that we need to create jobs for.

The informal sector plays a significant role in African economies since it offers the means for many people to cope with the severe lack of employment opportunities in the public and formal private sectors.

Liquidity thirsty developers, unable to acquire financing through the formal banking sector, have been taking out massive loans at extremely high interest rates. But, in many cases, housing demand has not grown as expected, raising the risk of default the effects of which would be transmitted to the entire financial sector.

There are formal proposals.

Formal methods of solicitation

The Nicaraguan Social Security Institute, which provides maternity, medical, disability, old age and survivors' benefits, has helped to improve the living conditions of the economically active population (EAP) employed in the formal sector of the economy.

Forty three per cent of children aged 2 6 years attended formal or non formal pre school education.

How formal is this ceremony?

(e) States should require operators of registered remittance systems to meet the same know your customer requirements as the formal banking sector, record correspondent relationships, report suspicious transactions, maintain records, and generally comply with all FATF recommendations

The Team has also learned that the Monetary Authority of Singapore has made changes to its regulatory policies in order to promote the use of the formal banking sector for money transfers from Singapore to other countries.