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Women Street Vendors Research Project in Africa International Methodology Workshop MS Word | Acrobat pdfCroatia Conference Paper, Oct 15 2002
MS Word | Acrobat pdfCharmes, Jacques. 1998a. Informal Sector, Poverty and Gender: A Review of Empirical Evidence. Washington, D.C.: The World Bank.
[MS Word] [Acrobat PDF]Charmes, Jacques. 1998b. Women Working in the Informal Sector in Africa: New Methods and New Data. New York: United Nations Statistics Division. Presented at the Delhi Group Meeting on Informal Sector Statistics, Ankara, April 28-30, 1998. [MS Word] [PDF Reader]
Charmes, Jacques. 1999. Gender and Informal Sector. New York: Contribution to the World’s Women 2000: Trends and Statistics, United Nations Statistics Division
[MS Word] [Acrobat PDF]Charmes, Jacques. 2000a. African women in food processing: a major, but still underestimated sector of their contribution to the national economy: Paper prepared for the International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
[MS Word] [Acrobat PDF]Charmes, Jacques 2000b. Is “Place of work” a pertinent and efficient question to better measure and understand the category of homeworkers, and more generally, outworkers in the labour force ? Geneva: Report of an Expert Group Meeting on the Measurement of Place of Work.
[MS Word] [Acrobat PDF]Chen, Martha, Renana Jhabvala, Francie Lund. 2001 Supporting Workers in the Informal Economy: A Policy Framework. A WIEGO publication.
[MS Word] [Acrobat PDF]Gallin, Dan. 1999. Trade Unions and the Informal Sector. Position Paper for ILO Conference on Trade Unions and the Informal Sector.
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[Acrobat PDF ENGLISH or Acrobat PDF ESPAÑOL]Gallin, Dan. July 2001. Propositions on Trade Unions and Informal Employment in Times of Globalisation, (Antipode, Vol. 33, Nr. 3). [Acrobat PDF]
Gallin, Dan. June 2002. Organizing in the Informal Economy, (Labour Education, Nr. 127, 2002/2, ILO). [MS Word] [Acrobat PDF]
Sethuraman, S.V. 1998. Gender, Informality and Poverty: A Global Review. Washington, D.C.: The World Bank.
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Chapter 3Unni, Jeemol. 1999. Women in the Informal Sector in South Asia: A Review of Evidence. Background Paper for Regional Policy Workshop. [MS Word ] [Acrobat PDF ]
White, Suzanne. 1999. Women's Employment in the Agro and Food Processing Sector: South Asia and East Africa. Draft Report Submitted to the Aga Khan Foundation Canada.
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http://www.siyanda.org/static/baruah_workers.htmCardero, Maria Elena, Antonieta Barron and Eugenia Gomez-Luna. 1998. The Impact of NAFTA on Female Employment in Mexico. Draft Report prepared for United Nations Development Fund for Women.
Esim, Simel. 1999. WHY EARN LESS? Gender-based Factors Affecting the Earnings of Self-Employed Women in Turkey. Article to be published by JAI Press in a volume titled Middle Eastern Women and Work and edited by the Middle East Economic Association
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Foo, Lora Jo, SYMPOSIUM: THE INFORMAL ECONOMY: The Vulnerable and Exploitable Immigrant Workforce and the Need for Strengthening Worker Protective Legislation. New Haven: Yale Law Journal, 1994. [MS Word ] [Acrobat PDF]
Mabeza-Chimedza, Ruvimbo. 1999. The Impact of Trade and Investment Liberalization on Women in the Informal Sector. Draft Report prepared for International Development Research Centre.
Unni, Jeemol and Uma Rani. 2000. Women in Informal Employment in India. The International Association for Feminist Economics 2000 Conference
[MS Word ] [Acrobat PDF ]Valodia, Imraan 2000. ECONOMIC POLICY AND WOMEN’S WORK IN SOUTH AFRICA: OVERLOOKING ATYPICAL WORK?. Paper presented at the conference of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE), Bo_aziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, 15-17 August 2000.
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