But recent research and exploration on the sector has resulted in a more benign approach, where the names and definitions have been used to define its broad and specific issues, for example:

• labour - casual, family enterprise
• poverty focus - subsistence, petty comodity, one-person entreprize
• 'temporary' status - transient, intermediate

In reality, it is all of these names taken together, that help us understand the many characteristics of the sector!

		Black Market Casual Work Clandestine Activities Community of the Poor Family-enterprise Sector Gray Economy Hidden Sector Informal Economy Informal Opportunities Informal Sector Intermediate Sector Invisible Sector Irregular Sector Lower-circuit of the Urban Economy Non-Plan Activities Non-Westernized Sector One-Person Enterprise Parallel economy People's Economy Petty Commodity Production Shadow Economy Trade-Service Sector Transient sector Underground Economy Unobserved Economy Unofficial Economy Unorganized Sector Unrecorded Economic Activities Unremunerated Sector Unstructured Sector Urban Subsistence Sector