Taxation plays invaluable role in the building and sustenance of national economies worldwide. It is used to bring in the needed revenue for national development. Generally, taxes are collected from ...

Journal of Theoretical Economics, 7(1): 2007. In developing countries, consumers can buy many goods either in formal markets or in informal markets and decide where to purchase based on the product's ...

Informality remains a defining characteristic of the Indian economy, with 89 per cent of the workforce engaged in informal employment. Over the past decade the government has introduced several ...

The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) released the new series of National Accounts with 2022-23 as its base on February 27, 2026. The new series has been introduced to ...

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 ...

AS the world rapidly urbanises, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) notes that at least 57% of the global population now resides in cities. This phenomenon has been ...

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, ...

Part 9 of this article series presents an implementation strategy for 24HE Outcome 5, that is, informal sector economic actors transitioned to the formal sector. It draws on the findings of the Ghana ...

SIR: Whatever the standpoint, there is no doubt that the informal sector, particularly in developing economies, remains the bedrock for economic emancipation of the downtrodden. The Lagos example ...

Nigeria and South Africa are Africa’s largest economies, and their development significantly affects their regions and the continent as a whole. Updated forecasts by the African Futures and Innovation ...

Ceyhun Elgin and Adem Yavuz Elveren find that women’s participation in the workforce reduces inequality, but when this participation occurs in the informal labor market, inequality remains high MARC ...