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Mainstreaming informal employment and gender in poverty reduction : a handbook for policy-makers and other stakeholders /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chen, Martha Alter
Autores Corporativos: Commonwealth Secretariat, International Development Research Centre (Canada), Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing
Otros Autores: Vanek, Joann, Carr, Marilyn
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Commonwealth Secretariat and International Development Research Centre, 2004.
Colección:New gender mainstreaming series on development issues.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Notas:At foot of title: WIEGO.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xxiii, 248 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:1552501736
9781552501733
0850927978
9780850927979