Slightly more than 60% of all working people in the world are informally employed. This means that they lack the labour and social protections that help smooth income, protect against risk, and keep households out of poverty. Without access to economic and social rights, it is difficult for informal workers to actively contribute to building open, vibrant, democratic societies. How can their situation be improved? What can be done to ‘formalise the informal economy’?

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-trafficking-and-slavery/workers-rights-in-informal-economies/