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Women’s Economic Empowerment Through Fair Trade: Case Studies from India and Nepal This article gives a summary of experiences from India and Nepal from an action research project on producer organizations of working poor... Read More
Note on Concepts and Techniques for Estimating the Contribution of Women Working in the Informal Sector Presented at the Delhi Group Meeting on Informal Sector Statistics, Ankara, April 28-30, 1998 Read More
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Sumário Executivo – Estudo de Monitoramento da Economia Informal: Catadoras e Catadores de Materiais Recicláveis de Bogotá, Colômbia Read More
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Executive Summary – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Home-Based Workers in Ahmedabad, India Read More
Defining and measuring informal employment Abstract: The paper summarises the international statistical definition of the informal sector as adopted by the Fifteenth International... Read More
Engendering Waste Pickers Cooperatives in Brazil Women waste pickers experience multiple forms of oppression within the sector, despite the invisibility of these specific gender-based vulnerabilities.... Read More
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