Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to review options for measuring innovation in the informal sector and proposes an agenda for future work. Design/methodology/approach: It starts with a review of surveys of innovation in the formal business sector, and related definitions, as sources of...

It has now been more than 40 years since the first attempts of defining and data collection on informal sector and informal employment on a large scale were launched in the early 1970s. Many debates paved the way for the international definition of the informal sector in 1993 and informal...

Measuring women's work remains an enduring problem though recent efforts have begun to yield fruit. Rates of women's employment are still far from being translated into GDP terms, which would otherwise be the logical outcome. Since the Beijing Conference in 1995, we see the emergence of the...