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• Abzug, Rikki. 1999. "The Non-profit Sector and the Informal Sector: A Theoretical Perspective." Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Non-profit Organizations, Vol. 10, No. 2.
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• Achankeng, Eric. 2003. "Globalization, Urbanization and Municipal Solid Waste Management in Africa." African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific
  2003 Conference Proceedings, African on a Global Stage, October 1-3, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.
  
  
• Adato, Michelle, Akhter Ahmed and Francie Lund. 2004. Linking Safety Nets, Social Protection and Poverty Reduction: Directions for Africa. IFPRI 2020 Policy Brief for All-Africa Conference.
  
  
  
• Ahn, Namkee and Sara De La Rica. 1997. "The Underground Economy in Spain: An Alternative to Unemployment?" Applied Economics, Vol. 29, No. 6. .
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• Alderslade, Jamie, John Talmage, and Yusef Freeman.2006. "Measuring the Informal Economy - One Neighborhood at a Time." A Discussion Paper Prepared for the The Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program, September 2006.
  
• Aliber, Michael. 2002. "Informal Finance in the Informal Economy: Promoting Decent Work among the working poor." Geneva: ILO.
  
  
• Amaral, Pedro and Erwan Quintin. Forthcoming. "A Competitive Model of the Informal Sector." Journal of Monetary Economics.
  
• Amin, Nural. 2002. "The Informal sector in Asia from the Decent Work Perpective." Geneva: Employment Sector, ILO.
  
• Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro. 2006. "Street Hawkers and Public Space in Mumbai." Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 41, No. 21, May 27, 2006.
  
• Artisan Association of Cambodia. 2006. Easing the Barriers to Formality: Registration Procedures for Microenterprises and Handicraft Exports in Cambodia. Geneva: ILO.
  
  
• Ascoly, Nina and Chantal Finney, Eds. 2005. Made by Women: Gender, the Global Garment Industry and the Movement for Women Workers’ Rights. Amsterdam: Clean Clothes Campaign.
  
  
• Assaad, Marie and Judith Bruce. 1997. "Empowering the Next Generation: The Girls of the Maqattam Garbage Settlement." Seeds, No. 19. New York: Population Council.
  
  
  
  
• Baden, Sally. 2001. Researching Homework and Value Chains in the Global Garments Industry: An Annotated Resource List and Binder.
  
  
• Balkenhol, Bernd (ed). 1999. "Credit Unions and the Poverty Challenge - Extending Outreach, Enhancing Sustainability." Geneva: ILO. To purchase a copy of this book, click here.
  
• Bangasser, Paul E. 2000. "The ILO and the Informal Sector: An Institutional History." ILO Employment Paper, No. 2000/9.
  
  
• Barberi, Paolo and Ivano Bison. 2004. "Self-employment in Italy: Scaling the Class Barriers". In Walter Muller and Richard Arum, eds. A Comparative Study of Self-employment Dynamics and Social Inequality. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
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• Barbin, Eloisa A., Christopher Lomboy, and Elmer S. Soriano. 2006 . "A Field Study of Microinsurance in the Philippines." Geneva: ILO.
  
  
  
• Barrett, Jane. 2003."Organising in the Informal Economy: A Case Study of the Minibus Taxi Industry in South Africa." SEED Working Paper, No. 39. Geneva: In Focus Programme, ILO.
  
  
  
• Barrientos, Armando and Stephanie Ware Barrientos. 2002. "Extending Social Protection to Informal Workers in the Horticulture Global Value Chain." Social Protection Discussion Paper Series, No. 0216. Washington, D.C.: World Bank.
  
  
• Barrientos, Stepanie Ware and Catherine Dolan, Eds. 2006. Ethical Sourcing in the Global Food System: Challenges and Opportunities. London: Earthscan
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• Barrientos, Stepanie Ware, Andrienetta Kritzinger and Hester Rossouw. 2004. "National Labour Legislation in an Informal Context: Women Workers in Export Horticulture in South Africa." In Marilyn Carr, Ed., Chains of Fortune: Linking Women Producers and Workers with Global Markets. London: Commonwealth Secretariat.
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• Barwa, S.D. 1995. "Structural Adjustment Programmes and the Urban Informal Sector in Ghana." ISSUES IN DEVELOPMENT, Discussion Paper 3.
  
  
• Baltiwala, Srilatha. 2006. “When Rights Go Wrong.” Seminar, January 2007.
  
• Bauer, Susanne et al. 2006. "Get Ahead for Women in Enterprise."
  Geneva: International Labour Office.
  
  
• Baylina, Mireia and Michaela Schier. 2002. "Homework in Germany and Spain: Industrial Restructuring and the Meaning of Homework for Women." GeoJournal, Vol. 56, No. 4, April 2002.
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• Becker, Kristina Flodman. 2004. "The Informal Economy." Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) Fact Finding Study, March 2004.
  
• Bee, Faustine K. et al. 2002. "Challenges to Traditional Livelihoods and Newly Emerging Employment Patterns of Pastoralists in Tanzania." Geneva: ILO.
  
• Bejakovic, Predrag. 2004. "The Informal Economy in Croatia and Economic Development." South-East Europe Review, March 2004.
  
  
• Beneria, Lourdes. 2001. Changing Employment Patterns and the Informalization of Jobs: General Trends and Gender Dimensions. Geneva: International Labour Office.
  
  
• Beneria, Lourdes and Maria S. Floro. 2004. "Labor Market Informalization and Social Policy: Distributional Links and the Case of Homebased Workers." Vassar College Working Paper, No. 60, August 2004.
  
  
  
• Benítez, Manuel, Melany Machado, Sarah Gammage and Alison Paul. 2005. "Compartiendo Anhelos y Esperanzas: Genero, Migración, Remesas y Las Organizaciones Salvadoreñas.” Lecciones Aprendidas y una Guía
  Metodológica para las Organizaciones Salvadoreñas en el Exterior y sus Comunidades de Origen. CEASDES, San Salvador.
  
  
  
• Bennett, Mark. 2003. "Organising in the Informal Economy: A Case Study of the Clothing Industry in South Africa." SEED Working Paper, No. 37. Geneva: In Focus Programme, ILO.
  
  
  
• Benton, Lauren.1989. “Homework and Industrial Development: Gender Roles and Restructuring in the Spanish Shoe Industry.” World Development, Vol. 17, No. 2.
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• Bernabé, Sabine. 2002. "Informal Employment in Countries in Transition: A Conceptual Framework." Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) Working Paper, No. 56, April 2002. London: London School of Economics.
  
  
  
• Bernabé, Sabine. 2002. "A Profile of Informal Employment: The Case of Georgia." Employment Sector Working Paper on the Informal Economy, No. 9. Geneva: ILO.
  
• Bhasin, V. and W. Akpalu. 2001. “Impact of Micro-Finance on the Efficiency of Micro-Enterprises in Cape Coast.” University of Cape Coast: ILO.
  
  
• Bhatt, Ela. 2005. We are Poor but So Many: The Story of Self-Employed Women in India. New York: Oxford University Press.
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• Bhatt, Ela. 2002. Interplay of Women, Money and Power: SEWA Members' Perspective. Talk given at the Conference on 'Women, Money, Power' held by Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University , October 25, 2002.
  
• Bhowmik, Sharit K. Forthcoming. “Street Vendors in India: The Struggle for Recognition.” In John Cross and Alfonso Morales, eds. Street Entrepreneurs: People, Place, & Politics in Local and Global Perspective. New York: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy.
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• Bhowmik, Sharit K. 2006. “The Politics of Urban Space in Mumbai: 'Citizens' versus the Urban Poor.” In Mary E. John, Praveen Kumar Jha and Surinder S. Jodhka, eds. Contested Transformations : Changing Economies and Identities in Contemporary India. New Delhi: Tulika Books.
  
• Bhowmik, Sharit K. 2005. Street Vendors in Asia : A Review. Economic and Political Weekly, 28 May- 4 June.
  
  
• Bhowmik, Sharit K. 2003. "Urban Responses to Street Trading: India." Paper for panel entitled "Urban Responses to Street Traders: A Comparative Perspective from India, Kenya, and South Africa" at the Urban Research Symposium on Urban Development for Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction, World Bank, Washington, D.C., December 2003.
  
• Bhowmik, Sharit K. 1999. "Hawkers and the Urban Informal Sector: A Study of Street Vending in Seven Cities". Prepared for the National Alliance of Street Vendors of India.
  
• Birchall, Johnson.
  
  
• Bivens, L. Josh and Sarah Gammage. 2005 .Will Better Workers Lead to Better Jobs in the Developing World? In Tony Avirgan, L. Josh Bivens and Sarah Gammage, Eds. Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, No Jobs: Labor Markets and Informal Work in Egypt, El Salvador, India, Russia and South Africa. Washington, D.C.: Global Policy Network, Economic Policy Institute.
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• Bjerkli, Camilla Louise. 2005. "The Cycle of Plastic Waste: An analysis on the informal plastic recovery system in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia." Masters Thesis,Department of Geography, Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
  
• Blue, Bronwyn. 2006. Handicraft Sector Design and Business Development Manual: A Step-by-Step Guide. Geneva, ILO.
  
• Bonilla García, A. and J.V. Gruat. 2003. "Social Protection: A Life Cycle Continuum Investment for Social Justice, Poverty Reduction and Development." Geneva: International Labour Office.
  
  
• Broad, Dave. 2000. "The Periodic Casualization of Work: The Informal Economy, Casual Labour and the Longue Duree." In Faruk Tabak and Michaeline A. Crichlow, Eds., Informalization: Process and Structure. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
  
  
• Broad, Dave. 1997. "The Informal Economy, Work and Social Welfare." University of Regina Social Policy Research Occasional Paper, No. 17
  
  
• Bromley, Ray A. 2000. "Street Vending and Public Policy: A Global Review." International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. 20, Nos. 1/2.
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• Bromley, Ray A. 1979. The Urban Informal Sector: Critical Perspectives on Employment and Housing Policies. New York: Pergamon Press.
  
  
• Bromley, Ray A. 1978. “Organization, Regulation and Exploitation in the So-Called 'Urban Informal Sector': The Street Traders of Cali." World Development, Vol. 6, No. 9/10, Sept-Oct.
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• Brown, Alison, Ed. 2006. Contested Space: Street Trading, Public Space, and Livelihoods in Developing Cities. Rugby: Intermediate Technology Development Group Publishing (ITDG) Publishing.
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• Burton, Barbara and Sarah Gammage. 2004. El Envío: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Remittances, Rights and Associations Among Central American Immigrants in Greater Washington, D.C. Destination D.C. Working Paper, No. 1, November 2004. Women’s Studies Department, George Washington University and Center for Women and Work, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey: Washington, D.C.
  
  
• Carr, Marilyn, Ed.. 2004. Chains of Fortune: Linking Women Producers and Workers with Global Markets. London: Commonwealth Secretariat.
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• Chan, Po Ying and Hui Sop Ieng. 2005. "To Make Hidden Voices Speak Out: The Experience of Organising Cleaning Workers in the Community in Hong Kong." Hong Kong: Committee for Asian Women.
  
• Charmes, Jacques. 2000. "The Contribution of Informal Sector to GDP in Developing Countries : Assessment, Estimates, Methods, Orientations for the Future". Presented at the 4th Meeting of the Delhi Group on Informal Sector Statistics; Geneva: 28-30 August 2000.
  
  
  
• Charmes, Jacques. 1998a. "Informal Sector, Poverty and Gender: A Review of Empirical Evidence". Background paper for the World Development Report 2001: Attacking Poverty. Washington, D.C.: The World Bank.
  
  
• Charmes, Jacques. 1998b. "Women Working in the Informal Sector in Africa: New Methods and New Data". New York: United Nations Statistics Division and presented at the Delhi Group Meeting on Informal Sector Statistics, Ankara, April 28-30, 1998.
  
  
• Chatterjee, Mirai and M. Kent Ransom. 2006. "SEWA Social Security: Organizing Women Workers for Insurance and Health Services." In ILO /STEP, Social Protection and Inclusion: Experiences and Policy Issues. Geneva: International Labour Office, Strategies and Tools against social Exclusion and Poverty programme.
  
  
  
  
• Chen, Martha. 2006. Self Employed Women : A Profile of SEWA's Membership. Ahmedabad: Self-Employed Women's Association.
  Table of Contents - Part I - Part II - Part III - Part IV - Part V
  
  
  
• Chen, Martha. 2005. "The Business Environment and the Informal Economy: Creating Conditions for Poverty Reduction." Background paper for the Committee of Donor Agencies for Small Enterprise Development Conference on “Reforming the Business Environment,”
  November 29 - December 1 2005, Cairo, Egypt.
  Accompanying powerpoint presentation.
  
  
• Chen, Martha. 2006. "Rethinking the Informal Economy: Linkages with the Formal Economy and the Formal Regulatory Environment". In Basudeb Guha-Khasnobi, Ravi Kanbur, and Elinor Orstrom, eds., Unlocking Human Potential: Concepts and Policies for Linking the Informal and Formal Sectors Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Chen, Martha. 2004. Towards Economic Freedom: The Impact of SEWA. Ahmedabad: Self-Employed Women's Association.
• Chen, Martha. 2003. "Rethinking the Informal Economy". Seminar, Vol. 531, November 2003.
• Chen, Martha and Donald Snodgrass.. 2001. "Managing Resources, Activities, and Risk in Urban India: The Impact of SEWA Bank." USAID AIMS Project, 2001.
  To read the executive brief, click here.
  To read other AIMS publications, click here.
• Chen, Martha, Jennefer Sebstad and Lesley O'Connell. 1999. "Counting the Invisible Workforce: The Case of Homebased Workers." World Development¸ Vol. 27, No. 3.
• Chen, Martha and Joann Vanek. 2005. "Informal Employment: Rethinking Workforce Development." In Tony Avigan, L. Josh Bivens and Sarah Gammage, eds., Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, No Jobs: Labor Markets and Informal Work in Egypt , El Salvador , India , Russia , and South Africa. Washington , D.C. : Economic Policy Institute.
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• Chen, Martha, Joann Vanek, Francie Lund, James Heintz with Christine Bonner and Renana Jhabvala. 2005. The Progress of the World's Women 2005: Women, Work and Poverty. New York: UNIFEM.
  Available in English, in French and in Spanish.
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• Chen, Martha, Joann Vanek and Marilyn Carr. 2004. Mainstreaming Informal Employment and Gender in Poverty Reduction: A Handbook for Policymakers and Other Stakeholders. London: Commonwealth Secretariat.
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• Chen, Martha, Joann Vanek and James Heintz. 2006. "Informality, Gender and Poverty: A Global Picture." Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 41, No. 21, May 27, 2006.
  
  
• Chen, Martha and Marilyn Carr. 2004. "Globalization, Social Exclusion and Work: With Special Reference to Informal Employment and Gender." International Labour Review: Special Issue on More Equitable Globalization, Vol. 143, Nos. 1-2, Geneva: ILO.
• Chen, Martha and Marilyn Carr. 2002. " Globalization and the Informal Economy: How Global Trade and Investment Impact on the Working Poor." Working Paper on the Informal Economy , No. 1. Geneva : ILO
• Chen, Martha, Renana Jhabvala and Frances Lund. 2002. "Supporting Workers in the Informal Economy: A Policy Framework." Working Paper on the Informal Economy , No. 2. Geneva : ILO.
  
• Chen, Martha, Renana Jhabvala, and Reema Nanavaty. 2003. "Investment Climate and Informal Enterprises: A Case Study from Urban and Rural India ". Background Case Study for World Development Report 2005: A Better Investment Climate for Everyone.
  
• Chen, Martha, Renana Jhabvala, Ravi Kanbur, and Carol Richards, eds. 2007. Membership Based Organizations of the Poor. London: Routledge.
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  To read more about this project, click here.
• Chen, Martha, Renana Jhabvala, Ravi Kanbur, Nidhi Mirani, Karl Osner and Carol Richards, eds. 2005. Membership Based Organizations of the Poor: Reflections After an Exposure and Dialogue Program with SEWA in Gujarat , India , January 2005.
  
  
  
• Chen, Martha, Renana Jhabvala, Ravi Kanbur, Nidhi Mirani and Karl Osner, eds. 2004. Reality and Analysis: Personal and Technical Reflections on the Working Lives of Six Women . Working Paper 2004-06. Ithaca , NY : Working Paper, Department of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University.
  
  
• Chikarmane, Poornima and Laxmi Narayan. 2005. Case study on Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat (Trade Union of Waste-pickers).
  
• Chua, Ronald T. and Gilberto M. Llanto. 1996. "Assessing the Efficiency and Outreach of Urban Micro-finance Schemes." Geneva: ILO.
  
• Cohen, Monique with Mihir Bhatt and Pat Horn.. 2000. Women Street Vendors: The Road to Recognition." SEEDS, No. 20.
  
  
• Cointreau-Levine, Saundra. 1994. Private Sector Participation in Municipal Solid Waste Services in Developing
  Countries, Urban Management Programme Discussion Paper, No. 13, Washington, DC: The World Bank, 1994.
  
• Committee for Asian Women. 2004. Reclaiming Dignity Struggles of Local Domestic Workers in Asia.
  
  
• Constable, Nicole. 1997. Made to Order in Hong Kong: An Ethnography of Filipina Workers. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
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• Cook, Sarah, Naila Kabeer and Gary Suwannarat. 2003. Social Protection in Asia. New Delhi: Har-Anand Publications/Ford Foundation.
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• Cook, Sarah. 2002. "From Rice Bowl to Safety Net: Insecurity and Social Protection during China's Transition." Development Policy Review, Vol. 20, No. 5.
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• Cook, Sarah. 2001. After the Iron Rice Bowl: Extending the Safety Net in China. IDS Discussion Paper, No. 377. Brighton: IDS Sussex.
  
  
• Couture, Marie-France. 2002. "Cooperative Business Associations and their Potential for Developing Countries." Geneva: ILO.
  Also available in French.
  
• Cretney, John and Adimaimalaga Tafuna’i. 2004. "Tradition, Trade and Technology: Virgin Coconut Oil in Samoa." In Marilyn Carr, Ed., Chains of Fortune: Linking Women Producers and Workers with Global Markets. London: Commonwealth Secretariat.
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• Cross, John C. 1998. Informal Politics: Street Vendors and the State in Mexico City. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press.
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• Dalton, William J. 2006. Linking farmers to growing markets: Excerpts from a field officer’s journal in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Geneva, ILO.
  
• Daly, Mary. 2001. Care Work: The Quest for Security. Geneva: ILO.
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• Dashtseren, Tsetsen. 2006. "Easing the Barriers to Formality: Regulatory Framework Affecting Mongolian Micro and Small Businesses." Geneva: International Labour Organization.
  
  
• Daza, José Luis. 2005. "Informal Economy, Undeclared Work and Labour Administration." Dialogue Paper, No. 9. Geneva: Social Dialogue, Labour Law and Labour Administration Branch, International Labour Office.
  
• Delvaux. E. 2001. "Challenge of the Informal Economy: A trade union response - Labour Education No. 123." ILO: Geneva.
  Also available in French and Spanish.
  
• De Alwis, Ranjit. 2003. "An approach to providing occupational health services to the informal sector: Asian-Pacific newsletter on occupational health and safety." Helsinki: ILO.
  
  
• de Soto, Hernando. 1989. The Other Path: The Economic Answer to Terrorism. New York: Basic Books.
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• Devenish, Annie and Caroline Skinner. 2004. Organising Workers in the Informal Economy: The Experience of the Self Employed Women’s Union, 1994-2004.
  
  
• Devey, Richard, Caroline Skinner and Imraan Valodia. 2003. "Informal Economy Employment Data In South Africa: A Critical Analysis." Paper presented at the Trade and Industry Policy Secretariat (TIPS) and Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU) Forum 2003, 8 - 10 September 2003, Indaba Hotel, Johannesburg, South Africa.
  
• Diop, Francois P. 1998. "Contribution actuelle et potentielle des Mutuelles de santé au financement,à la fourniture et à l'accès aux soins de santé: Cas du Bénin." Geneva: ILO.
  
  
• Duric, Dragan. 1999. "The Shadow Economy: Between Authority and Crime." South-East Europe Review, Vol. 1, No. 2, April 1999.
  
• Economic Institute Of Cambodia. 2006. Decent Work in the Informal Economy in Cambodia: A Literature Review. Geneva: ILO. Also available in Khmer.
  
• Economic Institute of Cambodia. 2006. Handbook on Decent Work in the Informal Economy in Cambodia. Geneva: ILO.
  Also available in Khmer.
  
• Edgcomb, Elaine L. and Tamra Thetford. 2004. The Informal Economy: Making it in Rural America. Washington, D.C.: FIELD Program (Microenterprise Fund for Innovation, Effectiveness, Learning and Dissemination), Aspen Institute.
  
  
• Edgcomb, Elaine L. and Maria Medrano Armington. 2003. The Informal Economy: Latino Enterprises at the Margins. Washington, D.C.: FIELD Program (Microenterprise Fund for Innovation, Effectiveness, Learning and Dissemination), Aspen Institute.
  
  
• Eggenberger- Argote, Niklaus. 2005. "Informal Sector Support and Poverty Reduction." Desk study prepared by Gerster Consulting on behalf of the Swiss State Secretariat for
  Economic Affairs, February 2005.
  
• El Mahdi, Alia. 2002. "Towards Decent Work in the Informal Sector:The Case of Egypt." Geneva, Employment Sector, ILO.
  
  
• Engardio, Pete and Carol Matlack. 2005. "Global Aging and An Older, Poorer World." Business Week, January 31, 2005.
  
  
• Ethical Trading Initiative. 2006. "Getting Smarter at Auditing: Tackling the Growing Crisis in Ethical Trade Auditing." Report from ETI members’ meeting, 16 November 2006.
  
  
• Evers, Hans-Dieter and Ozay Mehmet. 1994. "The Management of Risk: Informal Trade in Indonesia." World Development, Vol. 22, No. 1.
  
  
• Farrell, Diana. 2006. "Tackling the Informal Economy." Business Week, May 8, 2006.
  
  
• Farrell, Diana. 2004. "Boost Growth by Reducing the Informal Economy." The Asian Wall Street Journal, October 18, 2004.
  
  
• Ferran, Lourdes. 1998. "Note on Concepts and Techniques for Estimating the Contribution of Women Working in the Informal Sector." New York: United Nations Statistics Division. Presented at the Delhi Group Meeting on Informal Sector Statistics, Ankara, April 28-30, 1998.
  
  
• Fields, Gary. 2004. “A Guide to Multisector Labor Market Models.” Prepared for the World Bank Labor Market Conference.
  
• Forastieri, Valentina. 1999. "Improvement of Working Conditions and Environment in the Informal Sector through Safety and Health Measures." Geneva: ILO.
  
  
• Galli, Rossana and David Kucera. 2003. "Informal Employment in Latin America: Movements over Business Cycles and the Effects of Worker Rights." International Institute for Labour Studies Discussion Paper, No. 145. Geneva: Decent Work Research Program, ILO.
  
• Gallin, Dan. 2007. "The ILO Home Work Convention - Ten Years Later." Speech given at the policy conference on homebased workers in South Asia co-organized by SEWA and UNIFEM entitled "Women, Work and Poverty," New Delhi, India, January 18-20, 2007.
  
  
• Gallin, Dan. 2001. "Propositions on Trade Unions and Informal Employment in Times of Globalization." Antipode.
  
  
• Gallin, Dan and Pat Horn. 2005. "Organizing Informal Women Workers." Paper prepared for UNRISD Gender Policy Report.
• Gammage, Sarah. 2005. "Crowding In Collective Remittances: Lessons Learned from State-HTA Collaborations in El Salvador," Destination D.C. Working Paper, No. 7, June 2005. Women’s Studies Department, George Washington University and Center for Women and Work, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey: Washington, D.C.
• Gammage, Sarah. 2004. “Viajeros y Viajeras en El Salvador: Enlazando Mundos, Estrechando Vínculos,” paper presented at the FLACSO/RR.EE. conference on La Transnacionalización de La Sociedad Centroamericana: Nuevos Retos Planteados a Partir de la Migración Internacional, Camino Real, San Salvador, May 13, 2004, Destination D.C. Working Paper, No. 2. Women’s Studies Department, George Washington University and Center for Women and Work, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey: Washington, D.C.
  
  
• Gammage, Sarah, Alison Paul, Melany Machado and Manuel Benítez. 2005. "Gender, Migration and Transnational Communities," Report to the Inter-American Foundation, Arlington, Virginia.
  
  
• Gammage, Sarah, Helene Jorgensen, Eugenia McGill with Marceline White. 2002. Trade Impact Review. Report prepared for Women’s EDGE, Global Trade Program, Washington, DC.
  
  
  
• Gerry, Chris. 1987. "Developing Economies and the Informal Sector in Historical Perspective." The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 493, No. 1.
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• Ghani, Ashraf. 2006. "Economic Development, Poverty Reduction, and the Rule of Law: Lessons from East Asia: Successes and Failures." Background paper prepared for the High Level Commission on the Legal Empowerment of the Poor, January 2006.
  
  
• Glovackas, Sergejus. 2005. Informal Economy in Central and Eastern Europe.
  
  
  
• Goldman, Tanya. 2003. "Organizing in the Informal Economy: A Case Study of the Building Industry in South Africa." SEED Working Paper, No. 38. Geneva: In Focus Programme, ILO.
  
  
• Goldman, Tanya. 2003. "Organizations in South Africa's Informal Economy: An Overview of Four Sectoral Case Studies." SEED Working Paper, No. 60. Geneva: In Focus Programme, ILO.
  
  
• Gordon, Jennifer. 2007. "Transnational Labour Citizenship." The Southern California Law Review , March 2007.
  To read an abstract of this article, click here.
  
  
• Gothoskar, Sujata. 2005. New Initiatives in Organizing Strategy in the Informal Economy: Case Study of Domestic Workers Organizing in India. Bangkok: Committee for Asian Women.
  Paper - Appendicies and References - Summary Document
  
  
  
• Grossman, Karen Doyle. 2005. "EITC and Microentrepreneurs: One Program's Experience." FIELD Forum, No. 16, September 2005.
  
• Guerrero, Jaime Ramirez. 2003. "Capacitación Laboral para el Sector Informal en Colombia - Cinterfor Boletín 155." Geneva: ILO.
  
  
• Guha-Khasnobis, Basudeb, Ravi Kanbur and Elinor Ostrom. 2006. Linking the Formal and Informal Economy: Concepts and Policies. London: Oxford University Press.
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• Guha-Khasnobis, Basudeb and Ravi Kanbur. 2006. Informal Labour Markets and Development. London: Palgrave MacMillan.
  To read the introduction to this book, click here.
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• Günther, Isabel and Andrey Launov. 2006. "Competitive and Segmented Informal Labor Markets." Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Discussion Paper, No. 2349. Bonn: IZA.
  
• Haan, Hans Christiaan. 2002. “Training for Work in the Informal Sector: New evidence from Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.” Geneva: ILO.
  
• Hakemulder, R. 1997. "Promoting Local Economic Development in a War-affected Country: The ILO experience in Cambodia." Geneva: ILO.
  
  
• Hart, Keith. 1973. “Informal Income Opportunities and Urban Employment in Ghana.” The Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 11, No. 1.
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• Harvard Trade Union Program and WIEGO. 2001. "The Informal Economy in North America". Harvard Trade Union Program/WIEGO Conference Report, 21-22 May 2001.
  
  
• Harvard Trade Union Program and WIEGO. 2001. "Organizing Informal Workers in the Global Economy: Unions, Co-operatives, Advocacy Networks, and Emerging Labor Organizations." Harvard Trade Union Program/WIEGO Conference Report, October 2001.
• Haspels, Nelien. 2001. "Action against Sexual Harassment at Work in Asia and the Pacific." Bangkok: ILO.
  
• Heintz, James. 2006. "Globalization, Economic Policy and Employment: Poverty and Gender Implications." Employment Strategy Paper, No. 6. Geneva: Employment Policy Unit, Employment Strategy Department, ILO.
  
• Heintz, James. 2004. "Elements of an Employment Framework For Poverty Reduction in Ghana." A report of a joint ILO/UNDP mission. Washington, D.C.: UNDP.
  
  
• Heintz, James. 2003. "The New Face of Unequal Exchange: Low Wage, Manufacturing Commodity Chains and Global Inequality." Political Economy Research Institute Working Paper, No. 59. Amherst, MA: Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
  
  
  
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