strategy
Improving conditions in the informal sector
Context:
It can be argued that if local economic development is achieved through keeping low-paid worker low-paid, then this is exploitative. One of the remedies is to improve promotion and skill-enhancing opportunities through appropriate on-the-job training targeted at unskilled and semi-skilled workers. There remains the dilemma, however, that informal sector operators gain much of their trading advantage by cutting corners on safety, benefits, training etc. If these, arguably exploitative, practices were removed through regulation, low-income workers might have fewer opportunities as there might be fewer successful informal sector businesses. Broader:
Integrating informal sector Narrower:
Upgrading settlements and urban slumsAssisting waste and recycling in the informal sectorAdvancing integrated employment-linked shelter deliveryTraining for self-employment in the urban informal sector Constrains:
Increasing competition from low-wage countries Facilitates:
Reducing poverty Facilitated by:
Upgrading technology in the informal sectorMobilizing resources from the informal sectorResearching effects of poor working conditionsCreating employment in the urban informal sectorRemoving legal prejudice towards informal-sector activities Subjects:
Development → ReformType Classification:
G: Very Specific strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
