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

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London : Commonwealth Secretariat and International Development Research Centre, 2004.

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Description	1 online resource (xxiii, 248 pages).
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	New gender mainstreaming series on development issues
	New gender mainstreaming series on development issues.
Note	At foot of title: WIEGO.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
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.
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.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Women in development -- Developing countries.
	Women in development.
	Developing countries.
	Informal sector (Economics) -- Developing countries.
	Informal sector (Economics)
	Poor women -- Developing countries.
	Poor women.
	Sex discrimination in employment -- Developing countries.
	Sex discrimination in employment.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	Vanek, Joann.
	Carr, Marilyn.
	Commonwealth Secretariat.
	International Development Research Centre (Canada)
	Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing.
Other Form:	Print version: Chen, Martha Alter. Mainstreaming informal employment and gender in poverty reduction. London : Commonwealth Secretariat and International Development Research Centre, 2004 0850927978 (OCoLC)56913018
ISBN	1552501736 (electronic book)
	9781552501733 (electronic book)
	0850927978 (paper)
	9780850927979 (paper)

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

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