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Mainstreaming informal employment and gender in poverty reduction : a handbook for policy-makers and other stakeholders / Martha Alter Chen, Joann Vanek, Marilyn Carr.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Chen, Martha Alter.
- Series:
- New gender mainstreaming series on development issues.
- New gender mainstreaming series on development issues
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women in development--Developing countries.
- Women in development.
- Informal sector (Economics)--Developing countries.
- Informal sector (Economics).
- Poor women--Developing countries.
- Poor women.
- Sex discrimination in employment--Developing countries.
- Sex discrimination in employment.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (277 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Ottowa : International Development Research Centre ; London : Commonwealth Secretariat and International Development Research Centre, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this book, the authors highlight the lack of attention to employment, and especially informal employment, in poverty reduction strategies and point to the links between being informally employed, being a woman or a man, and being poor. They do this within the context of major changes relating to economic restructuring and liberalization and map out the impacts on different categories of informal producers and workers, both men and women. The book draws widely on recent data and evidence of the global research policy network called Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WI
- Contents:
- Contents; Abbreviations; Foreword; Executive Summary; 1. Employment: The 'Missing Link' in the Poverty Debates; 2. Informal Employment, Gender and Poverty; 3. The Changing World of Work: Linking Economic Reforms–Gender–Poverty; 4. Decent Work for Informal Workers: Promising Strategies and Examples; 5. Informal Employment and Gender: A Strategic Policy Approach; References; Appendices;
- Notes:
- At foot of title: WIEGO.
- Includes bibliographical references (205-221).
- ISBN:
- 1-280-71778-5
- 9786610717781
- 1-55250-173-6
- OCLC:
- 69649791
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