Informal Employment in Different Levels of Development
- Created by: Jc1415
- Created on: 25-01-22 17:01
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- The Informal Economy
- Kampala- A Developing City
- Uganda earns half of its estimated GPD from informal employment
- Most informal workers are women and young people and are poor
- The formal economy is growing slowly because most Ugandans are subsistence farmers
- Manufacturing employs only 5% of the population
- Services are the main part of Kampala's informal economy
- New Delhi- An Emerging City
- New Delhi is wealthy, however street selling is common
- Newspapers suggest that 75% of New Delhi's are in the informal economy
- 78% of GPD is from services
- Manufacturing contributes 20% but is growing fast
- Much of the informal economy is in factories but there are no regulations about min wage, benefits or working conditions
- New York- A Developed City
- The knowledge economy is the most important part of the cities economy
- 2014- 10% of employment was provided by financial conpanies
- Manufacturing provides 10% of employment
- Informal economy provides 7% of US economy
- Consists of migrants both legal and illegal
- Many self-employed workers do not declare income to tax officials
- Construction and catering
- Workers have no protection, they work long hours for less than min wage
- Kampala- A Developing City
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