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BL
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994478
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b748848
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Chen, Martha Alter.
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Mainstreaming informal employment and gender in poverty reduction : : a handbook for policy-makers and other stakeholders /\ Martha Alter Chen, Joann Vanek, Marilyn Carr.
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| Publication Statement
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London :: Commonwealth Secretariat and International Development Research Centre,, 2004.
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| Series Statement
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New gender mainstreaming series on development issues
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1 online resource (xxiii, 248 pages)
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| ISBN
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0850927978
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: 1552501736
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: 9780850927979
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: 9781552501733
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| Notes
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At foot of title: WIEGO.
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references.
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| Contents
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Abbreviations; Foreword; Executive Summary; 1. Employment: The 'Missing Link' in the Poverty Debates; 2. Informal Employment, Gender and Poverty; 3. The Changing World of Work: Linking Economic Reforms-Gender-Poverty; 4. Decent Work for Informal Workers: Promising Strategies and Examples; 5. Informal Employment and Gender: A Strategic Policy Approach; References; Appendices.
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| Abstract
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In this book, the authors highlight the lack of attention to employment, and especially informal employment, in poverty reduction strategies and point to the links between being informally employed, being a woman or a man, and being poor. They do this within the context of major changes relating to economic restructuring and liberalization and map out the impacts on different categories of informal producers and workers, both men and women. The book draws widely on recent data and evidence of the global research policy network called Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WI.
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Informal sector (Economics)-- Developing countries.
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Poor women-- Developing countries.
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Sex discrimination in employment-- Developing countries.
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Women in development-- Developing countries.
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Informal sector (Economics)
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Poor women.
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Sex discrimination in employment.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Feminism Feminist Theory.
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Women in development.
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Developing countries.
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| Dewey Classification
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305.42091724
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HQ1240.5.D44C545 2004eb
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Carr, Marilyn.
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Vanek, Joann.
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Commonwealth Secretariat.
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International Development Research Centre (Canada)
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Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing.
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