Mainstreaming Informal Employment and Gender in Poverty Reduction

ISBN: 9780850927979

出版社: Stylus Pub Llc

出版年: 2005-1

页数: 248

定价: $ 28.19

装帧: Pap

内容简介

In this book, the authors highlight the lack of attention to employment, 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. This is done within the context of major changes in the nature of work related to economic restructuring and liberalisation and the book maps out the impacts on different categories of informal producers and workers, both men and women. Liberally scattered with practical examples, the book draws widely on recent data and evidence for a number of organisations, including WIEGO (Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing), a global research policy and provides a convincing case for an increased emphasis on informal employment and gender in poverty reduction strategies. It sets out a strategic framework that presents important guidelines for policy-makers seeking to follow this approach.