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Employment & VET

Creation of jobs and decent work together with extending coverage of social protection, vocational training provision and skills development in both formal sector and informal economy are essential for inclusive growth. Here we want to raise awareness and knowledge on the important role of employment, VET and social protection as key elements in the EU's development policy.

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Decent work - Disability & employment - Elderly employment - Employment policy - Monitoring labour markets - Vocational training - Youth employment

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  • 4.3.3 Finance

    Alessio Lupi created a new WIKI page | 25 October 2018
    The positive role of microfinance in enhancing the livelihoods of people dependent on the informal economy is generally recognised although some voices have begun to be heard about the risks of over-indebtedness. But the simple financing (not only micro-finance) of the informal micro-entrepreneurs...
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  • 4.3.2 Technical and vocational skills enhancement

    Alessio Lupi created a new WIKI page | 25 October 2018
    Originally, the informal sector was defined, among other criteria, by skills acquired on-the-job, outside the formal school system, most of its workers having no school level, even primary (ILO, 1972). Since the early times of the development of the informal economy, when the acquisition of skills...
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  • 4.3.1 Social Protection

    Alessio Lupi created a new WIKI page | 25 October 2018
    The expansion of social protection is key for policies aiming at encouraging the transition from the informal to the formal economy. For this reason, major international actors are focusing on this goal, also included among SDGs. Universal social protection is goal 1.3 of the SDGs : “ Implement...
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  • 4.3 Main sectoral approaches of policies designed to tackle the informal economy

    Alessio Lupi created a new WIKI page | 25 October 2018
    As discussed above, the formulation of policies aimed at tackling the informal economy can be based on empirical or normative approaches. Beyond this basic divide in terms of approaches that is manifested mainly at the macro-level (e.g. through legislation, regulatory systems and creation of...
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  • 4.2.3 Organising the populations dependent on the informal economy

    Alessio Lupi created a new WIKI page | 24 October 2018
    Organising is at the core of the actions and policies designed to enhancing the livelihoods of populations dependent on the informal economy. Whatever the angle under which the question is apprehended, organising is the way and means to address it. Sooner or later all projects intervening in the...
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  • 4.2.2 Upgrading the informal activities within the value chain

    Alessio Lupi created a new WIKI page | 24 October 2018
    A value chain “describes the full range of activities that are required to bring a product or service from conception, through the intermediary phases of production (involving a combination of physical transformation and the input of various producer services), to delivery to final consumers, and...
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  • 4.2.1 Taxing the informal activities

    Alessio Lupi created a new WIKI page | 24 October 2018
    At macro-economic level the very first concern of the States and of the financial institutions providing aid and counselling to the governments of developing countries was about taxation: if it was true that the informal economy did represent such a share of GDP, then it should be transformed into...
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  • 4.2 General approaches targeting informal economy units and workers

    Alessio Lupi created a new WIKI page | 24 October 2018
    Although governments and donors can use a number of approaches in the framework of their policies targeted on the informal economy, a prominent place is occupied by the following generic families of interventions: taxing the informal activities, upgrading the informal activities within the value...
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  • 4.1.6 References

    Alessio Lupi created a new WIKI page | 24 October 2018
    Adams, de Silva, and Razmara (2013), Improving Skills Development in the Informal Sector , World Bank Group, Washington, DC. Date of consultation: June 2018. Benjamin Nancy, Mbaye Ahmadou Aly (2012), The Informal Sector in Francophone Africa – Firms size, productivity and institutions, World Bank...
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  • 4.1.5 Conclusions

    Alessio Lupi created a new WIKI page | 24 October 2018
    In conclusion to the first section, we can summarize that the informal economy attracts increasing attention of national governments, donors, and international organizations. So far the research findings have established a significant relationship between the degree of informality and a number of...
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