The informal sector, informality and informal employment has been debated since the early seventies uuhen it ujas initiated at the launch of the ILO UUorld Employment Programme, the publication of the Kenya Report (1972) and the seminal contribution by Hart (1973). More than three decades later, some progress has been made in defining and measuring the 'Informal Sector Elephant' (Mead and Morrisson 1996), Much less has been achieved uuhen it comes to understanding the persistence of informality and ujhat this means for policymaking (Maloney 2004).
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