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Tag - Informal economy

Betelnut vendor, Papua New Guinea

Are workers in the informal sector leaving formal sector workers behind in PNG?

by Kelly Samof
11 April 2023
Farmer in a field of potato plants in Papua New Guinea

Bikpela wok na liklik mani: smallholders’ decisions on cash crops in PNG

by Michael Bourke
1 February 2023

Changes in Papua New Guinea’s fresh food marketplaces

by Timothy Sharp, Mark Busse and Michael Bourke
19 January 2023
Man cooking food in Port Moresby, PNG (Paul Maina)

Latest Port Moresby ban doomed to failure

by Busa Jeremiah Wenogo
25 October 2022
A local market near Goroka (P. Mathur-Bioversity International-Flickr)

The informal economy in development, or a history of thought in PNG

by Ronald J. May
28 March 2022
COVID-19 and disability in Indonesia (F. Latief-ILO-Flickr)

Disability and labour markets in Indonesia

by Laura Caron
3 November 2021
Street vendor during COVID-19 in Hanoi, Vietnam (ILO-Flickr)

Ethnic migrants in Hanoi: hit hard by lockdowns

by Tran Chung Chau and Nicola Nixon
27 August 2021
Arthur Lewis at Pasar Skouw: re-reading ‘The Theory of Economic Growth’

Arthur Lewis at Pasar Skouw: re-reading ‘The Theory of Economic Growth’

by John Conroy
14 April 2021
One-third of Pacific businesses doubt they will survive COVID-19

One-third of Pacific businesses doubt they will survive COVID-19

by Caleb Jarvis
31 March 2021
Crowds at the “golden day” at Lumi Station (Desmond Narongou)

Booming business, absent government in the Sepik

by Desmond Narongou
23 March 2021
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