The Secretary in the Office of the President, Mr Yunus Kakande, has stated that low wages and widespread informal activities pose significant obstacles to the growth of the service sector. Speaking at ...

Informal sector entrepreneurs would need to be shown that there’s value in adopting better bookkeeping practices, such as ...

Martin Magidi does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

By Tony ASARE We need to draw lines in the ground and say, ‘The concrete stops here.’ That forces people to build in and up, ...

Gender inequality issues are widespread and numerous. Wage and earning inequality in the labour market has been a major concern. Why job market outcomes differ across genders, even after controlling ...

The Nigerian economy in 2021 experienced some improvement in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth as sectors that were shut during the heat of the pandemic in 2020 reopened. As 2022 progresses, the ...

Lagos State Bureau of Statistics (LBS), in partnership with Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN), has urged stakeholders in informal sector to provide factual data to ...

[caption id="attachment_20929" align="alignnone" width="1024"] A street vendor sells roasted corn in Tanzania: Unregistered household enterprises comprise a ...

These are the individuals and micro-enterprises whose economic well-being is birthed and buoyed on the fringes of the formal economy; business activities that remain unregulated, and oftentimes, ...

A three-day national Knowledge Exchange and Training programme aimed at recognising and integrating informal waste workers as key partners ...