Courses
Policies for the Transition to Job and Business Formalization in the MENA Region (PJB)
September 23rd to 26th, 2024
The course is delivered by a team of OECD and international experts. The initial sections of the course will provide the necessary elements to analyze and understand the root causes of the informal economy and its impact on the overall economy and society. The course will discuss existing definitions of informal businesses and informal labor and methodologies for measuring the informal economy. The core sections of the course will consider best practice policy for labor and business formalization, from the perspective of different policy areas. These include business regulatory approaches, taxation mechanisms and incentives, the role of social protection to protect informal workers and as incentive for formalization and innovate mechanisms such as leveraging on the social economy to promote formalization. Case studies on best practices for the formalization of employment and SMEs implemented by peer countries will be presented.
