The unorganized, or informal sectors are an important means of livelihood to millions of
people in developing countries. Because of its very nature – it is unregulated by government – data collection and subsequent analysis lags far behind that for the formal
sector. In Pakistan and other developing countries, the informal sector often falls outside the scope for planned development
efforts, and thus remains in the shadows with regard to productivity, social security and statistics.
There are different types of clusters varying from agriculture to hand made products. So my questions are:
How we can define these clusters ?
Is there any base line studies on informal clusters?
How we can study the competitiveness of informal clusters?
Is there any framework to conduct such studies?
Regards