Tree surgeon using a chainsaw to prune branches while secured with ropes in Kowloon, Hong Kong.

“Informal economy”: an obfuscating tautology?

Written by Darcy du Toit [1]   The “informal economy” or “informal sector” has been seen as a challenge in labour law and policy development since the latter term was coined in the early 1970s. As the ILO put it forty years later: “As long as it persists, the informal economy will remain the most […]

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