Decent Work and the Informal Economy: Abstracts of working papers
As part of the preparatory work for the general discussion on the informal econo my at the 90th International Labour Conference (ILC) in Geneva in June 2002, the International Labour Office, under the auspices of its Inter-Sectoral Task Force on the Informal Economy, commissioned a series of background papers. These included studies of regional trends, country level studies and thematic investigations. The purpose of the papers was to identify the latest data and trends in the evolution of the informal economy around the world. This summary includes excerpts from “Supporting Workers in the Informal Economy: A Policy Framework” by WIEGO's Martha Alter Chen, Renana Jhabvala, and Frances Lund.
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