Informal employment (%total employment) in selected ASEAN Member States 1. ?? Cambodia : 93,32. ?? Indonesia: 83,53. ?? Laos : 82,94. ?? Myanmar : 81,45. ?? Philippines : 806. ?? Thailand : 78,87. ?? Vietnam : 73,38. ?? Brunei : 33 ASEAN avg. : 78,6 Source: @ilo [2018] — Informal Economy (@EconomyInformal) April 17, 2020
Very pleased to see these health and hygiene guidelines for informal food vendors and spaza shops out in the world. Many informal workers have been classified as essential workers and need health guidelines adapted to their workplaces and circumstances. https://t.co/Mc7YqlDE9N — Laura Alfers (@Laura_WIEGO) April 14, 2020
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27 Sept 2019 – HOW ARE THEY COPING NOW, THE INFORMALS DISPLACED BY CLEARING OPERATIONS? The public, long-suffering from disruptions by sidewalk vendors and other informal workers, applauded clearing operations by new-found enthusiasm of local governments. Read more. Where are these informals now? Have they been provided with alternative selling and operations spaces? How are…
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By Manuel Cayon, Businessmirror, Feb 19, 2017 DAVAO CITY—The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’s (BSP) effort to widen its reach among unbanked Filipinos is being hampered by the restrictions being imposed by the banking sector, industry sources said.
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The following is an interview with Plamen Dimitrov, Workers’ Spokesperson of the International Labour Conference (1-13 June 2015) Committee on the Transition from the Informal to Formal Economy, who expresses his views about the benefits for workers after the adoption of a new ILO Recommendation to tackle the informal economy. Mr Dimitrov also underlines the…
A study by the Asian Development Bank found that the Philippines has one of the highest tax rates in Asia, but the country’s untaxed underground economy is also among the largest in the world.
The approach of summer in the UP Diliman area where I have spent a large part of my life reminds me of the rustic life and its benefits.
While the politicians grab at each others’ throats to take credit for (or take credit from) the economic results, the truth is that the government may have very little to do with economic activity outside of the broad framework of regulation and incentives.
MANILA, Philippines – Two government agencies and a business group – the Philippine Council of Students in Intrapreneurship (PCSI) – signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) that aims to boost community projects that would provide livelihood opportunities dubbed “Youth Entrepreneurship Support Project (YES).”
Economists call it the underground economy. I think the more descriptive term is guerilla economy. Even after an economic crisis melts into a more normal economy, significant portions of our people remain in underground economy mode. It is as if we are in a perpetual state of war. I guess we are… war on poverty.
World Day for Safety and Health at Work
“Safety and health at work every day!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations against serious violations of Forced Labour and Freedom of Association protocols.
Accept National Unity Government
(NUG) of Myanmar.
Reject Military!
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April – Month of Planet Earth
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Last Week of March: Protection and Gender Fair Treatment of the Girl Child Week
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Mar 25 – International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transallantic Slave Trade
Mar 27– Earth Hour
Apr 21 – Civil Service Day
Apr 22 – World Earth Day
Apr 28 – World Day for Safety and Health at Work
