Informal employment and decent work: Contributory Social protection for the informal workers in Tanzania KU Leuven
Informal employment accounts for more than half of all jobs in low income countries. In Sub-Saharan Africa the share rises up to 80% and even 90% if agriculture is included (Chen et al., 2005, Vanek et al. 2014). Tanzania is considered to have one of the highest levels of informal employment in East Africa. In 2017, it was ranked by IMF as the country with the second largest share of informal economy in Africa after Nigeria. Also the ...