Role of Women in Informal Sector Development
Title | Role of Women in Informal Sector Development PDF eBook |
Author | Asian Productivity Organization |
Publisher | |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Informal sector (Economics) |
ISBN |
The Global Informal Workforce
Title | The Global Informal Workforce PDF eBook |
Author | International Monetary Fund |
Publisher | International Monetary Fund |
Pages | 414 |
Release | 2021-07-23 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1513575910 |
The Global Informal Workforce is a fresh look at the informal economy around the world and its impact on the macroeconomy. The book covers interactions between the informal economy, labor and product markets, gender equality, fiscal institutions and outcomes, social protection, and financial inclusion. Informality is a widespread and persistent phenomenon that affects how fast economies can grow, develop, and provide decent economic opportunities for their populations. The COVID-19 pandemic has helped to uncover the vulnerabilities of the informal workforce.
Women, gender and the informal economy : an assessment of ILO research and suggested ways forward
Title | Women, gender and the informal economy : an assessment of ILO research and suggested ways forward PDF eBook |
Author | Sylvia Chant |
Publisher | |
Pages | 56 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9789221206088 |
Reviews ILO research on women, gender and the informal economy. It compares and contrasts analytical and methodological frameworks used in various studies, identifies research gaps and directions for future research, and indicates key findings that may assist concerned ILO units in taking action and formulating policy directions.
The Long Shadow of Informality
Title | The Long Shadow of Informality PDF eBook |
Author | Franziska Ohnsorge |
Publisher | World Bank Publications |
Pages | 397 |
Release | 2022-02-09 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1464817545 |
A large percentage of workers and firms operate in the informal economy, outside the line of sight of governments in emerging market and developing economies. This may hold back the recovery in these economies from the deep recessions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic--unless governments adopt a broad set of policies to address the challenges of widespread informality. This study is the first comprehensive analysis of the extent of informality and its implications for a durable economic recovery and for long-term development. It finds that pervasive informality is associated with significantly weaker economic outcomes--including lower government resources to combat recessions, lower per capita incomes, greater poverty, less financial development, and weaker investment and productivity.
Organizing Women Workers in the Informal Economy
Title | Organizing Women Workers in the Informal Economy PDF eBook |
Author | Naila Kabeer |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 314 |
Release | 2013-03-14 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1780324537 |
Women as a group have often been divided by a number of intersecting inequalities: class, race, ethnicity, caste. As individuals - often isolated in reproductive or other home-based work - their weapons of resistance have tended to be restricted to the traditional weapons of the weak: hidden subversions and individualised struggles. Organizing Women Workers in the Informal Economy explores the emergence of an alternative repertoire among women working in the growing informal sectors of the global South: the weapons of organization and mobilization. This crucial book offers vibrant accounts of how women working as farm workers, sex workers, domestic workers, waste pickers, fisheries workers and migrant factory workers have organized for collective action. What gives these precarious workers the impetus and courage to take up these steps? What resources do they draw on in order to transcend their structurally disadvantaged position within the economy? And what continues to hamper their efforts to gain social recognition for themselves as women, as workers and as citizens? With first-hand accounts from authors closely involved in emerging organizations, this collection documents how women workers have come together to carve out new identities for themselves, define what matters to them, and develop collective strategies of resistance and struggle.
Women and Men in the Informal Economy
Title | Women and Men in the Informal Economy PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 205 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Economic development |
ISBN | 9789221281702 |
This publication provides, for the first time, direct measures of informal employment inside and outside informal enterprises for 47 countries. It also presents statistics on the composition and contribution of the informal economy as well as on specific groups of urban informal workers.
Women and the Informal Economy in Urban Africa
Title | Women and the Informal Economy in Urban Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Njeri Kinyanjui |
Publisher | Zed Books Ltd. |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2014-06-12 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1780326335 |
In this highly original work, Mary Njeri Kinyanjui explores the trajectory of women's movement from the margins of urbanization into the centres of business activities in Nairobi and its accompanying implications for urban planning. While women in much of Africa have struggled to gain urban citizenship and continue to be weighed down by poor education, low income and confinement to domestic responsibilities due to patriarchic norms, a new form of urban dynamism - partly informed by the informal economy - is now enabling them to manage poverty, create jobs and link to the circuits of capital and labour. Relying on social ties, reciprocity, sharing and collaboration, women's informal 'solidarity entrepreneurialism' is taking them away from the margins of business activity and catapulting them into the centre. Bringing together key issues of gender, economic informality and urban planning in Africa, Kinyanjui demonstrates that women have become a critical factor in the making of a postcolonial city.