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The Global Informal Workforce: Priorities for Inclusive Growth (imf.org)
About the Book
The new IMF book, entitled “The Global Informal Workforce: Priorities for Inclusive Growth,” which is being launched at the event, offers a timely and fresh look at the informal economy around the world and its impact on macroeconomic and development outcomes, analyzing the interactions between informality and labor and product markets, gender equality, fiscal institutions and outcomes, social protection, and financial inclusion.
The book sheds new light on the informal economy by looking in more detail at how to measure informality, analyzing its drivers and economic consequences, and discussing possible policy responses. A key message is sustainable and inclusive development requires a reduction in informality over time, but this process will inevitably be gradual because the informal sector is currently the only viable income source for billions of people.
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