Trading is now spread among dozens of exchanges across the country and an informal over-the-counter market.
The informal market provided vital goods and services that sustained Vietnam during its bleak years between 1975 to 1986.
Exchanging money on the informal, black market is a criminal offense.
This is an informal market not licensed by Nairobi city council.
The first of these was the decision to limit the concept of the informal market.
This, in particular, would capture businesses within the informal market that were operating from a homestead.
This has led to an explosion of informal markets and other businesses in and around the city.
Sprawled around the base of the plateau were informal markets where people gathered to buy, sell, and trade goods.
Now the informal markets have recognized the acute shortage of small notes.
Without revealing his real situation for the family, he starts working in the informal market, a territory that follows its own rules.