(b) Indicators on informal sector and informal employment

There is the modern sector, there is the informal sector and the traditional sector.

Items for information informal sector statistics

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

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

Now, it is not just this informal sector.

(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

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

The role of the informal sector in generating employment opportunities

Unleashing Africa's potential for development depends crucially on a dynamic private sector, including a strong informal sector.

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

The informal services sector plays an important role in developing countries.

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

Currently, a great many of these workers seek work in the informal sector.

Within the non agriculture sector, the major portion i.e. two thirds (64.6 ) of the employed persons was engaged in informal sector.

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

On the other hand, young and unqualified labour is pushed into the informal sector.

These laws do not for the moment cover the informal or the agricultural sector.

Women do not seem to making a preponderant proportion of the informal sector workers.

Presumably, then, they worked in the informal sector, or as paid hands on plantations.

In addition, women working in the informal sector did not have access to childcare.

(f) Further work on the measurement of the contribution of informal sector and informal employment to GDP, including work by regional and international organizations

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

Women employees in the informal sector do not have a statutory right to maternity leave.

Strengthening the informal sector can play an important role in job creation for low income groups.

There may also be a bias against recruiting women by some employers in the informal sector.

Bank interest rates on savings are lower than the inflation rate and many multiples lower than the rates promised by the informal sector. Default rates in the informal sector are high, and lenders may disappear with depositors money, as happened in Wenzhou.

Certainly, many workers, specially in agriculture, have no other choice but to work in the informal sector.

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.

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.

Or they may contribute to the expansion of the informal sector where workers most usually have no protection.

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

(a) Identification, definition and development of a core set of indicators on informal sector and informal employment in line with the importance placed on informal employment by the Task Force on Education and Gender Equality of the United Nations Millennium Project

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.

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.

While women's unemployment is widespread, most of those who work are involved in precarious activities in the informal sector.

However, the labor force comprehending men or women corresponds, in majority, informal workers (or non structured sector of society).

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

The private sector has not experienced sufficient growth, and in the public sector, the State has been forced to reduce the number of State institutions, thereby reducing public sector employment, with the result that workers have had to seek employment in the informal 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.

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.

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

It is also hoped that some lobbying could influence the legislation in defense of woman entrepreneur in the informal sector.