The document provides information about formal and informal economies in Bangladesh. It states that 90% of Bangladesh's labor force works in the informal economy, which includes wage laborers, self-employed individuals, unpaid family workers, and piece-rate workers. The informal sector provides opportunities for employment but lacks regulations, worker protections, and tax revenue collection. Both informal and formal sectors have advantages and disadvantages, such as job security and benefits in the formal sector versus lower barriers to entry in the informal sector. The document encourages shifting some informal workers and businesses to the formal sector to promote decent work, full employment, and increased tax collection.
The document provides information about formal and informal economies in Bangladesh. It states that 90% of Bangladesh's labor force works in the informal economy, which includes wage laborers, self-employed individuals, unpaid family workers, and piece-rate workers. The informal sector provides opportunities for employment but lacks regulations, worker protections, and tax revenue collection. Both informal and formal sectors have advantages and disadvantages, such as job security and benefits in the formal sector versus lower barriers to entry in the informal sector. The document encourages shifting some informal workers and businesses to the formal sector to promote decent work, full employment, and increased tax collection.
The document provides information about formal and informal economies in Bangladesh. It states that 90% of Bangladesh's labor force works in the informal economy, which includes wage laborers, self-employed individuals, unpaid family workers, and piece-rate workers. The informal sector provides opportunities for employment but lacks regulations, worker protections, and tax revenue collection. Both informal and formal sectors have advantages and disadvantages, such as job security and benefits in the formal sector versus lower barriers to entry in the informal sector. The document encourages shifting some informal workers and businesses to the formal sector to promote decent work, full employment, and increased tax collection.
The document provides information about formal and informal economies in Bangladesh. It states that 90% of Bangladesh's labor force works in the informal economy, which includes wage laborers, self-employed individuals, unpaid family workers, and piece-rate workers. The informal sector provides opportunities for employment but lacks regulations, worker protections, and tax revenue collection. Both informal and formal sectors have advantages and disadvantages, such as job security and benefits in the formal sector versus lower barriers to entry in the informal sector. The document encourages shifting some informal workers and businesses to the formal sector to promote decent work, full employment, and increased tax collection.
and informal economy • Page no. 194- 196 (old version)
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Informal Service Sector • In Bangladesh, 90% of the labour force is employed in the informal economy according to the 2010 Labour Force Survey. • Those working in the informal economy include wage labourers, self-employed persons, unpaid family labour, piece-rate workers, and other hired labour
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Who do so many people work in the informal sector?
• The poor cannot afford to be
unemployed • Requires almost no capital to enter this sector • This sector is unregulated • Absorbs surplus labor
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• Disadvantages Informal sector • The government can’t measure the actual state of the economy to help make policy. • Advantages • The government isn’t collecting • It affords opportunity to those the taxes that it should. who might not be able to find traditional jobs or livelihoods in • Consumers are not protected the formal sector. from people selling fake/unsafe goods. • No government interference, no taxes or subsidies to be paid to • Workers injured on the the government. job don’t have recourse to required insurance. • Ensures that the formal economy operates • Workers don’t accumulate with sufficient market efficiency. government pension benefits. • Informal businesses must stay small to avoid attracting attention. Big companies are more efficient. SIR JOHN WILSON SCHOOL Formal sector (1) has an organised system of employment with clear written rules of recruitment, agreement and job responsibilities. (2) has a standardised relationship between the employer and the employee and it is maintained through a formal contract. (3) the employee is expected to work for fixed hours and receives fixed salary in addition to incentives and perks.
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Formal sector • Advantages • Disadvantages • Stable income • Requires experience or • Job security qualifications • Benefits like health • Harder to get a job insurance, housing etc. • Income are taxed • Organised working hours • Limited flexibility and environment
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Overview
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EXAMPLES:
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Why is it important to shift from informal to formal?
The objective is indeed the growth of the formal economy,
decent work, fuller employment and increased tax revenue for the government. The efforts should therefore be not only shifting informal workers into formal jobs, but also registering and taxing formalised enterprises, providing informal workers with benefits such as access to legal and social protection.
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Read the material posted in GC titled as " Read Informal sector" which is taken from a newspaper.
GC activity Answer the questions posted once you
Answer are done reading. 15 minutes Submit Submit and return to zoom meeting and window return
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Answers • What policies can the government apply to deal with the informal sector? • Facilitate formalisation, reduce taxes and state regulation.
• Why is eliminating the informal economy a challenge for Bangladesh?
• More than 85% are employed in this sector, jobs are not available for all of them in the formal sector, not skilled or educated.
• There are two policy measures to promote formalisation; hard and
soft approach. Which one do you think will be a better option and why? • Your own answer with justification.