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Informal Sector, Poverty and Gender: A Review of Empirical Evidence

Measuring the Informal Economy: From Employment in the Informal Sector to Informal Employment

Policy Integration Department, Bureau of Statistics, Working Paper, No. 53

Informality in South Asia: A Review

This paper seeks to explore the diversity of the informal economy across five countries in South Asia: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan,...

Non-regular Employment and Gaps in Statistics in Japan

Paper for the WIEGO meeting on “Measuring Informal Employment in Developed Countries” 31 October-1 November 2008, Harvard University

Towards the Creation of Comparable Databases on the Informal Economy

Background document for the WIEGO Statistics Planning Meeting, June 2002

Statistics on Domestic Workers in Latin America

Domestic work is an important occupation, involving a significant proportion of the workforce in Latin America.  

Contribution of Women to the National Economy

In the context of growing gender inequalities and the consequential adverse impacts on the well-being of the society, gender issues have...

Statistics on Home-Based Workers in Nepal

This brief presents estimates of homebased workers in Nepal, certain characteristics of their work, their age distribution and family composition....

The World’s Women 2015: Trends and Statistics

This is the sixth edition in a series of reports produced by the United Nations Statistics Division every five years as called for specifically...

WIEGO Resource Document – Informal Economy Budget Analysis: Greater Monrovia

This paper aims to assess whether the government budget in Liberia address the needs of informal workers, in particular street vendors, market...