Analysis - The Sudan War series is a joint collaboration between the Center for Economic, Legal, and Social Studies and Documentation - Khartoum (CEDEJ-K), Sudan-Norway Academic Cooperation (SNAC) and ...

Arguments of GDP over- or under-estimation fall flat in the face of statistical progress made by India to measure this sector ...

Capitec CEO Gerrie Fourie may have overstated his case about SA’s unemployment rate, but he also illuminated a critical truth ...

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 ...

Economists argue that South Africa's unemployment rate may be much lower than reported, highlighting the impact of the informal sector and the need for a re-evaluation of current metrics ...

Additionally, the definition of royalty is expanded to include regular payments for software distribution, further widening ...

A new report from the International Labor Organization outlines a set of propositions on how countries should go about ...

While economists argue about the definition of ‘formal unemployment’, what perhaps we really need to consider is a figure around how many people do something and receive an income in return for it.

Nigeria is losing about $8.8bn every year due to its large informal economy, the African Development Bank said in its 2025 African Economic Outlook report. The report noted that while informal ...

The following complementary proposals are recommended to transition informal sector establishments to the formal sector. First, formulate a working definition of the informal sector. There are ...

Expanding the informal sector is therefore not an alternative to growing the formal sector. However, in a context where we had 40% unemployment and 70% youth unemployment (on the broad definition) ...