The ILO and the informal sector : an institutional history

By Paul E. Bangasser. 2000

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SDG 8: Decent work and economic growth – A gendered analysis (2019, background): “…as a term to describe ‘street hawkers, petty traders, shoeshine boys, and other groups ‘under-employed’ on the streets of the big towns,’ occupations characterised by their ease of entry, small scale and by the absence of monitoring, regulation or taxation by the state (Bangasser, 2000, pp. 9).”
POLITICAL ECONOMY OF INFORMALIZATION (2010, background): “…the informal economy The original concept of informal economy was developed within the International Labour Organisation (ILO) at the beginning of the 1970s (Bangasser 2000), and was associated exclusively with analyses of economic and social processes in Third World countries (Portes 1994).”
Entrepreneurial activity in the informal economy: a missing piece of the entrepreneurship jigsaw puzzle (2015, background): “Bangasser (2000) reviews the history of the concept within the ILO, while in a special issue of World Development Bromley (1978) assembles now classic papers on the informal sector in developing countries, amongst them the reviews by Moser (1978) and Tokman (1978).”
Globalization and Informal Jobs in Developing Countries (2010, background): “In this context, the International Labour Organization (ILO) decided to launch a series of large multidisciplinary “employment missions” to various developing countries (Bangasser, 2000).”