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Pakistan's "fake tax boom" exposed as system remains broken
Updated : 4 months, 1 week ago IST
Despite higher tax filings and a 15.7% tax-to-GDP ratio, Pakistan's taxation system remains weak. Many returns report zero income, salaried workers bear the largest burden, and exemptions weaken revenue. Experts say real progress requires genuine compliance, broader taxation of the wealthy a
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Bettamint unveils revolutionary app to transform unstructured construction
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Bangalore (Karnataka) [India], September 13: Bettamint, a construction tech startup, announces the launch of its innovative application, that is set to transform the way construction companies engage with their informal workforce. Anchored in a vision to unlock the vast potential of the info
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"Will you apologise now?" Ravi Shankar Prasad asks Rahul Gandhi after SC j
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad slammed Congress and Rahul Gandhi for questioning the Union Government's decision of demonetisation. He said the Congress party promoted and protected informal economy elements in its own way in the country.
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Kimberly-Clark pledges sanitation support to women at informal workplaces
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], November 20 (ANI/PRNewswire): According to The International Labor Organization, four out of five employed women in India are engaged in informal economy as daily-wage labourers, street vendors, garment manufacturers and such.
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Impact of COVID-19 on Indian Informal Economy
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 10 (ANI/Heylin Spark): The sheer scale of joblessness that prevails in our country is the most defining impact of the pandemic induced lockdown.
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Plug social protection gaps in developing countries to prevent future cris
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], May 15 (ANI): The COVID-19 crisis has exposed devastating gaps in social protection coverage in developing countries and recovery will only be sustained and future crises prevented if they can transform their ad hoc crisis response measures into comprehensive social pro
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Lockdown measures worsening poverty and vulnerabilities among informal eco
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], May 9 (ANI): The Covid-19 lockdown and containment measures threaten to increase relative poverty levels among the world's informal economy workers by as much as 56 percentage points in low-income countries, according to a new briefing paper issued by the International
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Nearly half of global workforce at risk of losing livelihood: ILO
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], May 1 (ANI): The continued sharp decline in working hours globally due to COVID-19 outbreak means that 1.6 billion workers in the informal economy -- that is nearly half of the global workforce -- stand in immediate danger of having their livelihoods destroyed, the Inte
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Protect workers now and after lockdowns ease, says ILO
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], April 28 (ANI): As the pressure mounts on countries to ease their lockdown restrictions, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) on Tuesday urged governments to take action to prevent and control COVID-19 in the workplace with active involvement and dialogue with em
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400 million Indian workers may sink into poverty due to COVID-19: ILO
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Apr 8 (ANI): With 90 per cent of people working in India's informal economy, about 400 million workers are at risk of falling deeper into poverty during the coronavirus crisis, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has said.
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Less cash economy to help India leap frog to levels of developed world in
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 9 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi's bold drive to take the economy into a 'less cash' mode through a multi-pronged strategy would not only check the menace of black money and corruption but would also lead to a large part of the informal economy into
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