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A lack of on-the-job skills training also contributes to widespread inactivity – a shortcoming that is exacerbated by the fact that almost half of Latin American employees work in the informal sector, where no such training is typically offered.
Soroush's ideas are also spread by the informal talks he gives at Tehran mosques, gatherings that include young clerics, regime opponents, intellectuals, political independents and even government technocrats.
The informal limits to free speech are subject to norms of social respectability.
Immense amounts of time were wasted in enterprises by informal requests for assistance, forcing knowledgeable workers to become computer gurus in order to aid their colleagues.
And almost 40% of firms surveyed by the World Bank lament the constraints imposed by competition from informal firms.
It’s great to see people I’d known professionally in a more informal light, with family photos and droll daily updates (who knew an oldie journalist I really admire could recommend new tunes by The Hysterics and Rilo Kiley?).
With the informal economy worth an estimated $360 billion, new policies aim to add all of this underground activity to Egypt’s recorded output.
The move was politically successful for the ruling party but economically devastating, causing massive disruptions to the Indian economy and upending the informal sector, which employs some 81% of the country’s workforce.
As a result, formal and informal links between the new Turkish political élite and the Arab world have been easier to forge.
My organization’s approach to economic advancement is to establish and strengthen informal and official networks, through which women can, in time, increase their participation and visibility in key sectors.
The G-20’s decisions have become increasingly informal, while rule-making authority has been outsourced to private regulatory bodies, such as the Basel Committee and the International Accounting Standards Board.
No surprise, then, that people either leave the island or go on welfare and work in the informal economy.
“Contact,” whether between kids at a summer camp or negotiators around a table, can lead to greater understanding if engagement is lengthy and on neutral territory, outcome-oriented, informal, personal, and avoids anxiety or competition.
The 2015 Human Development Report recognized that as the world moves toward a knowledge economy, low-skill or marginal workers are at greater risk of losing their jobs, and opportunities for exploitation of informal or unpaid workers increase.
The popular explanation for lack of action in Russia and Ukraine is that their governments view IDUs as criminals, rather than people with a disease, and adopt an informal let-them-rot policy.
De-politicization of surveillance is best achieved by creating an independent body, whether formal or informal, while stricter and more binding rules must include a stronger link between deficit and debt criteria.
Not all of their efforts are altruistic; in a few instances, crowd-funding and informal networks have benefited terrorism.
People viewed formal institutions with profound skepticism and retreated into social silos: informal, close-knit (and closed) circles of friends, family, and allies on which they relied for news, information, and much else.
If there is one thing that everyone agrees on about the East Asian recipe, it is that Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, and of course China all were exceptionally good at moving their labor from the countryside (or informal activities) to organized manufacturing.
Both sides have routinely abided by the informal protocol that has evolved over the years.
It noted that people increasingly adopted informal means of expressing unhappiness with Hong Kong's government, because they did not think that formal channels were sufficient.
But it ignores the fact that there still is a huge reservoir of urban labor in the informal sector that, upon shifting to the formal sector, would provide an additional boost to productivity.
Though young people are still flocking to the cities from the countryside, they end up not in factories but mostly in informal, low-productivity services.
The informal and traditional parts of the economy are typically not well served by government services and infrastructure, for example, and they are cut off from global markets, have little access to finance, and are filled by workers and managers with low skills and education.
Studies show that few successful businesses begin as small, informal firms; they are started, instead, at a fairly large scale, by entrepreneurs who pick up their skills and market knowledge in the more advanced parts of the economy.
They will also come to get the point of more informal social norms – against homophobia, for instance.
In defending the view that the policy was onerous and ineffective, drivers often pointed to an informal business of enlisting “professional” passengers.
One study estimates that workers treat half of the compulsory savings as a tax on labor income, so too-large an increase (especially in the funds that do not go to the worker’s individual account) could cause a drop in labor-force participation, a shift from formal to informal employment, or both.
Worse, these are often informal jobs characterized by high turnover, which impedes long-run human-capital accumulation.
For some, the right to make a living through the informal market would be sufficient.
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