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Women and Employment in Africa: A Framework For Action Background Document commissioned by the Danish Foreign Ministry for the Second Conference of the Africa Commission in November 2008 Read More
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Contaminated Identities: Mercury and marginalisation in Ghana’s artisanal mining sectorGeoforum Read More
Globalization, Free Trade, and the Social Impact of the Decline of Informal Production: The Case of Artisans in Quito, Ecuador In the context of globalization and policies to promote free trade on an international scale, this paper discusses what has happened to... Read More
Informal Transport: A Global Perspective Informal transport services—paratransit-type services provided without official sanction—can often be difficult to rationalize from a public... Read More
Living in the Background: Home-based Women Workers and Poverty Persistence CPRC Working Paper 97 Read More
Uncovering Non-Garment Homework in Australia: Preliminary Issues Abstract: Homeworkers are the most marginalized and one of the most exploited groups of workers (Greig, 2002), with an estimated 300 million... Read More
Introducing basic social protection in low income countries: Lessons from existing programmes Brooks World Poverty Institute Working Paper, No. 6 Read More
