Poverty
The relationship between the informal sectors and poverty certainly isn’t simple nor does a clear, causal relationship exist. An inverse relationship between an increased informal sector and slower economic growth has been observed though. Average incomes are substantially lower in the informal economy and there is a higher preponderance of impoverished employees working in the informal sector.
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Famous quotes containing the word poverty:
“Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.”
—Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)
“I respect not his labors, his farm where everything has its price, who would carry the landscape, who would carry his God, to market, if he could get anything for him; who goes to market for his god as it is; on whose farm nothing grows free, whose fields bear no crops, whose meadows no flowers, whose trees no fruit, but dollars; who loves not the beauty of his fruits, whose fruits are not ripe for him till they are turned to dollars. Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)