In response to this and in order to move closer to ratification of the Convention, the Government of Namibia set up a Wages Commission in 2012 to recommend a new minimum wage for domestic workers and investigate other conditions of work (Hammerton, 2013). Both exist primarily outside of the traditional market sphere, but they are increasingly commodified and their market valuation is far from an accurate reflection of their social value. In a related sense, they are public goods with positive externalities that make the market mechanism an economically inefficient arbiter of their use.