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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823734303321

Autore

Chen Martha Alter

Titolo

Mainstreaming informal employment and gender in poverty reduction [[electronic resource] ] : a handbook for policy-makers and other stakeholders / / Martha Alter Chen, Joann Vanek, Marilyn Carr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ottowa, : International Development Research Centre

London, : Commonwealth Secretariat and International Development Research Centre, c2004

ISBN

1-280-71778-5

9786610717781

1-55250-173-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (277 p.)

Collana

New gender mainstreaming series on development issues

Altri autori (Persone)

VanekJoann

CarrMarilyn

Disciplina

331.4/12042

Soggetti

Women in development - Developing countries

Informal sector (Economics) - Developing countries

Poor women - Developing countries

Sex discrimination in employment - Developing countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

At foot of title: WIEGO.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (205-221).

Nota di contenuto

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;

Sommario/riassunto

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