The Indian Communist Party was born in Kanpur in 1925. A party centenary is an occasion for celebration and also to restate the aims, path and reinforce the character of the organisation. But if ...

Such emerging risk areas may include those affecting the volatile informal sector in Kenya. The parametric insurance differs from traditional life insurance by using predefined triggers to ...

The sixth Survey of Employers and the Self-employed shows some interesting trends in the informal business sector in South Africa. FILE PICTURE: Informal trader Rose Mhlanga who sells fruit speaks ...

The growing economic crisis has been highlighted by the fall in the value of the rupiah to levels not seen since the Asian ...

Uncertainty in U.S.–Ukraine relations is growing, but informal ties with some U.S. philanthropists built over three years of ...

Despite the imperative to raise revenue, the country’s tax effort has focused predominantly on a shrinking, already compliant formal sector. Even with a large, thriving informal economy ...

Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 50, No. 176 (June 2023), pp. 261-271 (11 pages) This briefing explores the strategies deployed by informal workers in Harare during Zimbabwe’s Covid-19 ...

South Africa continues to grapple with a crippling unemployment crisis resulting in the highest income inequality in the world, evidenced by a 2023 Gini coefficient of 0.63. Unlike comparable ...

The Ceylon Teachers’ Union (CTU) raised alarm over a critical shortage of teachers for the G.C.E. Advanced Level (A/L) in ...

“The informal sector is already practicing circularity by recycling and reusing materials, but we need formal sector integration into national policies,” she stated. She also called for a ...

Daikin, Hitachi and Samsung are among manufacturers alarmed by new Indian government rules that require them to pay ...

The new measures would represent the most aggressive US siege against Venezuela’s economy thus far, posing the threat of mass ...