In sub-Saharan Africa women work relatively more in the informal sector than men. Many factors could explain this difference, including women’s lower educatio

A large percentage of workers and firms operate in the informal economy, outside the line of sight of governments in emerging market and developing economies. T

The Global Informal Workforce is a fresh look at the informal economy around the world and its impact on the macroeconomy. The book covers interactions between

Analyzes informality in Latin America, exploring root causes and reasons for and implications of its growth. This book uses two distinct but complementary lense

This publication provides, for the first time, direct measures of informal employment inside and outside informal enterprises for 47 countries. It also presents