It stresses the need to pay special attention to those who are especially vulnerable to the most serious decent work deficits in the informal economy, including young people. From this perspective, it is important to note that Recommendation No. Therefore, in a context of poverty and multifaceted vulnerabilities, policy efforts to facilitate the transition to formality should go hand in hand with ensuring opportunities for income security, livelihoods and entrepreneurship. Interventions are more effective when they are combined, given that this practice allows them to address diversity as well as the scale of the informal economy and informal employment in the formal sector (ILO, 2014b). Evidence indicates that the greatest reduction in informality rates occurs when the set of instruments used is broader and more comprehensive (ILO, 2014a). The first includes measures or incentives for the creation of formal jobs and conditions for their development, such as subsidies for the development or expansion of enterprises and of employment, and programmes designed to increase skills of the labour force.