 There is a mainstream view that the policy response to informality should be to move informal workers and their activities into the formal economy by regulating or taxing them or shifting them into formal jobs. Given the size of the informal economy and the range of informal activities, we can't just move the informal economy into formal wage jobs. What is needed is to regulate the employment relationships and the trade relationships between formal firms and informal workers and informal enterprises. But the real solution is to enhance their productivity so that their income is liable for taxes and they would be willing and able to pay taxes into the total revenue, but not to assume that they're all going to shift out of what they're doing.