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Means-testing can be very difficult in an environment where jobs are concentrated in the informal sector, primarily in self-employment, without any formal account-keeping or income data.
But, in developing countries, workers in the dominant informal sector are already excluded from social-insurance programs.
A clear structure of formal rules is the best antidote to these flaws, for they bolster the informal customs on which so much in society depends.
He rehabilitated the institution after succeeding an unworthy predecessor and became popular at home and admired abroad as an informal global Elder on the international stage, a sought-after speaker in international fora, and a symbol of a peace-seeking Israel, in sharp contrast to its pugnacious prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu.
One may infer that such informal arrangements survive in real-world employment relationships because they reinforce our heartfelt feelings of good will toward each other.
Not surprisingly, central bankers who are committed to a formal or informal inflation target of about 2% per year are unwilling to abandon their mandates openly and to assert that they are pursuing a high rate of inflation.
Indeed, they should agree on a common policy stance at one of the myriad formal and informal meetings of eurozone heads of state and finance ministers.
Currently, the BRICS countries constitute a loose, informal bloc.
Furthermore, since 2003 state schools offer religious instruction (using authorized textbooks that are never Wahhabi in spirit), with the informal approval of secular and Sufi teachers alike.
The informal financial sector – which conducts 40% of India’s total lending, largely in rural areas – has all but collapsed.
According to official data, 60% of the working population is employed in the informal sector, while youth unemployment is exceptionally high.
They have succeeded in setting up a largely informal learning environment, focusing mainly on truly interactive learning.
Although we will need more such informal learning environments in the future, politicians and the public have hardly noticed.
These are informal structures, even if they have owners and access to them is regulated.
The corporate world – indeed, the formal workplace more generally – can no longer be strictly separated from the informal world in which work and leisure have become blurred.
Just as formal schooling needs to become better integrated with the informal learning environments to which our children are exposed in multiple ways, formal and informal learning must mesh in a life-long process.
While such efforts certainly point in the right direction, the research-friendliness and innovativeness of the wider societal environment – particularly practices of informal learning and opportunities to follow one’s curiosity – also matter.
Seeing the excitement that can be generated in young people through events like science festivals and networks of science centers gives rise to cautious optimism – provided we seize the diversity of opportunities that informal learning offers.
Informal learning implies a messy, unruly, and potentially subversive process.
Moreover, other support networks – including income opportunities in tourism, the informal sector, and charitable and family support – are crumbling under the pressure of growing poverty.
The answer lies in the fragmented and deliberately informal nature of Europe’s monetary union.
The successful realization of official peace talks through an observer reflects the significant progress made since informal discussions were held last November.
With digital finance, as many as 1.6 billion unbanked people – more than half of whom are women – could gain access to financial services, shifting about $4.2 trillion in cash and savings currently held in informal vehicles into the formal financial system.
And these data refer to formal changes in laws and regulations; no data are available on the extent to which unchanged laws and regulations are implemented in a more restrictive manner, increasing informal barriers to the entry and operations of foreign firms.
But Zardari retained the mantle of the PPP’s co-chairman that he acquired following the assassination of his wife, Benazir Bhutto, in December 2007, and even held all formal and informal party meetings in presidential properties.
These not only increase household spending, but also offer opportunities for trade, in both the formal and informal sectors, making it the most successful policy in the fight against poverty.
And women in developing countries are more likely to work in an inefficient informal economy; to be prevented by discriminatory laws from owning land; and to face bias in establishing, developing, and financing their own businesses.
They thus face a bleak choice: life in the camps, attempting to eke out a living in the informal sector, or the hope of a future in Europe.
The fiscal bureaucracy, too, is being modernized, with the deployment of electronic tax notifications and other administrative reforms boosting revenue collection while diminishing the size of the informal economy.
But, recognizing that economic power could translate into political influence, the BRICS held their first informal meeting in 2006, and their first leaders’ summit in 2009.
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