MAINSTREAMING INFORMAL EMPLOYMENT AND GENDER IN POVERTY REDUCTION: A Handbook for Policy-makers and other Stakeholders
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| Title: | MAINSTREAMING INFORMAL EMPLOYMENT AND GENDER IN POVERTY REDUCTION: A Handbook for Policy-makers and other Stakeholders |
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| Description: | 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. |
| Authors: | Alter Chen, M., Vanek, J., Carr, M. |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Women in development--Developing countries, Informal sector (Economics)--Developing countries, Poor women--Developing countries, Sex discrimination in employment--Developing countries |
| Categories: | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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. |
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| ISBN: | 9780850927979 9781552501733 |
