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The informal economy is no longer on the periphery of the domestic economic landscape but has instead evolved into a powerful engine of employment, household income and economic survival. It is estimated that Namibia’s informal economy accounts for 26.5% of gross domestic product (GDP) and employs close to 60% of the country’s workforce.<\/p>\n
Industries, Mines and Energy Minister Modestus Amutse used the inauguration of the first National Steering Committee on the Informal Economy at NIPAM in Windhoek…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The informal economy is no longer on the periphery of the domestic economic landscape but has instead evolved into a powerful engine of employment, household income and economic survival. It is estimated that Namibia’s informal economy accounts for 26.5% of gross domestic product (GDP) and employs close to 60% of the country’s workforce. Industries, Mines […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":242185,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,6481,5762,20309,8353,4706,724,257,254,19401],"class_list":["post-242184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-benefits","tag-economy","tag-evolving","tag-informal","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tangible"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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