Urban Informal Sector
Urban Informal Sector
To understand about the urban informal sector, lets define first what is informal sector. Informal
Sector is defined as a part of country’s economy that is characterized by small competitive
individual or family firms, petty retail trade and services, since usually informal sector labors are
self-employed.
They are free entry, since many informal workers do their businesses in unprotected and
unsecured places thus, they are neither taxed nor monitored by any form of government. To put
simply, we can say that informal sector refers to those sectors, where social security of related
stakeholders is almost missing, and in this sense, it differs from the formal sector.
However, the informal sector continues to play an important role in developing countries,
despite decades of benign neglect and outright hostility. Many developing countries, about half
of the employed urban population works in the informal sector.