Sustainable markets

Pages tagged with

Informal economy

61 entries

A welder uses home-made equpiment in Kenya, where the Jua Kali (informal economy) thrives and can solve any problem (Photo: Erik (HASH) Hersman, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Lessons from the informal sector

Insight, 24 February 2016

The sale of matoke in a market near Fort Portal, Uganda: green growth planning must take account of the informal economy (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)

Does green growth miss the majority?

Insight, 18 February 2016

A street barber in Kolkata, India. It is estimated that the city has nearly 2m street traders (Photo: Nicolas Mirguet, Creative Commons via Flickr)

The other half of the future – business' informal sector

Insight, 04 February 2016

Mecati Forest, Mozambique: a group of charcoal producers clear trees and prepare to make charcoal. Each year more than eight million bags of charcoal are produced by Mozambique's informal sector (Photo: Mike Goldwater/IIED)

The informal economy and sustainable development

Active Project

Waste pickers packing up the recyclable materials, Peru (Photo: Alex Proimos, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Workers in informal economy need say in global environmental agendas

Insight, 07 December 2015

A typical Kenya milk bar. Packaged milk in supermarkets has been found to be no better at meeting food safety standards than raw milk sold from kiosks (Photo: International Livestock Research Institute, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Lessons in informality from Kenya's dairy sector

Insight, 03 November 2015

A street vendor sells produce in Surabaya, Indonesia (Photo: Schristia, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Showcasing innovations in policy approaches to informality

Article, 21 July 2015

Muganda at his stall at Karango town with Medius Bihunirwa, a researcher with the Kabarole Research and Resource Centre (Photo: Kabarole Research and Resource Centre)

Rush to urbanise leaves food vendors out in the rain

Insight, 07 July 2015

Chinese timber business in Mozambique (Photo: Mike Goldwater)

China-Africa trade and investment: benefiting Africa's rural informal economy?

Insight, 31 March 2015

Customers at a milk bar in Ndumbuini in Kabete, Nairobi. Research in Kenya has found that milk sold in this way had similar bacterial levels to those sold in formal markets (Photo: ILRI/Paul Karaimu)

What do street food, charcoal, gold, mobile phones and milk have in common?

Insight, 17 December 2014

Traders take matooke to market

Resilient Dynamism? An informal word with leaders meeting in Davos

Insight, 22 January 2013

The informal economy: route into or out of poverty?

News, 10 August 2011

The hidden byway to recovery?

Insight, 20 January 2010

Related tags

Informal sector

Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM)