Dhaka, Bangladesh (Case Study)
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- Dhaka, Bangladesh (informal economy)
- Facts
- This megacity has a population of 16 million.
- Around 25 per cent of the capital's population live in crowded slums.
- Most densely populates megacity in the world.
- Benefits of informal activities
- Wide range of cheap of goods and services.
- Poor with a means of survival
- Nothing to break the cycle of poverty
- Bad things about the informal sector
- No healthcare or no employment benefits
- A high exposure to work-related risks
- An uncertain legal status
- Discrimination
- More important facts
- It is estimated that there are half a million children in the informal sector.
- Most people worked from dawn to dusk, earning about 50 cents a day.
- Jobs ranged from begging to scavenging to domestic service and working a fare collectors.
- Hazards such as street crime, violence, drugs, sexual abuse, toxic fumes and carrying excessive loads.
- Their poor conditions mean that these children often suffer extremely poor health and a range of development problems.
- There is little hope that they will break out of the cycle of poverty, particularly if they have no schooling.
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