Region: Arab States

Rendering Istanbul’s Periodic Bazaars Invisible: Reflections on Urban Transformation and Contested SpaceInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research

This is a study of Istanbul’s periodic bazaars and an attempt to place them in the context of contestation over urban space, urban...

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أطلقت شبكة المنظمات العربية غير الحكومية للتنمية الإصدار الثالث لراصد الحقوق الاقتصادية والاجتماعيّة في البلدان العربيّة الذي ركّز هذه المرّة...

Informal Employment: Rethinking Workforce Development

Why Earn Less? Gender-based Factors Affecting the Earning of Self-Employed Women in Turkey

Industrialization and New Forms of Employment in Tunisia

Informal economy and labour market policies and institutions in selected Mediterranean countries: Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Algeria and Morocco

Building Women Homebased Workers’ Organizations in Turkey

Abstract:This article introduces Turkey HomeNet, an organisation of homebased female workers in Turkey. Turkey HomeNet is a national umbrella...

Visible Hands – Invisible Women: Garment Production in TurkeyFeminist Economics

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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)

Informality, Employment and Economic Development in the Arab World

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