very venture that earns money but pays no taxes, employs people but does not follows the labour laws or runs a business but holds no licence is part of an informal sector of economy. So basically, the ...

ZIMBABWE’S latest push to formalise the informal economy arrives at a moment when the country can no longer afford policy slogans that sound progressive but fail the test of lived reality. For many ...

MINING executives have urged the government to accelerate formalisation of artisanal and small-scale miners, saying the sector's future depends on bringing operators into the mainstream economy.The ...

The subject of transitioning from informality to formality continues to be discussed extensively. Informal economy comprises activities that are beyond the state’s reach. Emerging and developing ...

Value-added tax has a self-enforcing design that generates formalisation cascades through supply chains. Using CMIE Prowess data from 12,024 firms for the period 2013-2022, this article examines the ...

There could be an increase of 15.1 per cent in the formalisation rate of the workforce after the implementation of the four labour codes that’s poised to reduce compliance burden. According to the SBI ...

The Central government has stayed focussed on both formalisation of the economy and digitisation. Formalisation aims at bringing more of the unorganised sector into the formal fold by means of GST, ...

THE government has formed an 11-member advisory council team to hasten the formalisation of micro, small-to-medium businesses (SMEs), a Cabinet minister has said. In Zimbabwe, SMEs have dominated the ...