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A decade of ILO-India partnerships : towards a future without child labour (1992-2002)
2004 - Regiones

A Field Study of Microinsurance in the Philippines
2002 - Eloisa A. Barbin; Christopher Lomboy; Elmer S. Soriano; Empleo Attached documents: 1. A field study of microinsurance in the PhilippinesResumen disponible This report is part of larger multi-country project that seeks to understand how low-income entrepreneurs cope with risk in securing a livelihood and the role that insurance can play in managing risk. This paper presents the results of an extensive su ...

Un futuro sin trabajo infantil: Informe global con arrego al seguimiento de la Declaración de la OIT relativa a los principios y derechos fundamentales en el trabajo
2002 - Report of the Director-General Attached documents: 1. A future without child labourResumen disponible Un futuro sin trabajo infantil, tercer informe global realizado de conformidad con el seguimiento de la Declaración de la OIT relativa a los principios y derechos fundamentales en el trabajo, demuestra que la abolición del trabajo infantil se ha convertid ...

A job at any price? Decent work and the informal economy
2002 Resumen disponible As unemployment queues grow worldwide, the pressure to find a job has never been greater. To survive, more and more people are being forced into the 'informal economy', an exploding area of activity that covers a vast range of work, from street vendors, s ...

A Labour Force Survey Module on Informal Employment (including employment in the informal sector) as a Tool for Enhancing the International Comparability of Data
2003 - Ralf Hussmanns; Departamento de Integración de Políticas Attached documents: 1. A Labour Force Survey Module on Informal EmploymentResumen disponible The purpose of this paper is to propose the design of a standard module of questions on informal employment (including employment in the informal sector) for inclusion in national labour force surveys. The inclusion of such questions in labour force surv ...

A Load Too Heavy: Children Labour in Minig and Quarrying
2005 - Normas y Principios y Derechos Fundamentales en el Trabajo

A Profile of Informal Employment: The case of Georgia.
2002 - Sabine Bernabé; Empleo Attached documents: 1. A Profile of Informal Employment: The Case of GeorgiaResumen disponible This paper highlights the massive changes that have taken place in the labour market situation in Georgia, one of the poorest of the newly independent countries of the former Soviet Union. Accompanying the informalization of employment has been a comparab ...

A Thematic Evaluation of the Urban Informal Sector: ILO Actions and Perspectives
1999 Attached documents: 1. A Thematic Evaluation of the Urban Informal Sector: ILO Actions and PerspectivesResumen disponible It is of special significance that this issue of the Evaluation Highlights is a synthesis of the results of an independent thematic evaluation conducted by the Central Evaluation Unit. The main purpose of the evaluation was to take stock of the ILO's work ...

A training policy model for enhancing employability and gender equity: The Formujer Programme
2004 - Regiones

ABC of Women Workers' Rights and Gender Equality
2000 Resumen disponible This concise and easy to read guidebook assists the layperson in understanding the legal frameworks and socio-economic developments surrounding gender equality in the world of work. Completely updated and revised, this guide incorporates important informa ...

Abidjan Platform: Strategies to support mutual health organizations in Africa
1998 - STEP; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. Abidjan Platform; 2. Plataforma de Abidjan; 3. Plate-forme d'AbidjanResumen disponible As it is neither desirable nor realistic to develop a single support strategy, it is useful to evaluate past and present strategies in order to identify successes and failures. When it involves a variety of players, the evaluation allows for the compariso ...

ACOPAM
2000 - Empleo Resumen disponible ACOPAM is one of the ILO's largest and most longstanding technical cooperation projects in Africa. The programme promoted self-employment among the peoples of the Sahel region through the promotion of cooperatives and other self-help organizations, such a ...

Action against Sexual Harassment at Work in Asia and the Pacific
2001 - Nelien Haspels; Zaitun Mohamed Kasim; Constance Thomas and Deirdre Mc Cann; Regiones Attached documents: 1. Excerpt on the informal measures; 2. Action against Sexual Harassment at Work in Asia and the Pacific - full textResumen disponible This book explores the different perceptions as well as attitudes on sexual harassment and provides a definition of sexual harassment, as well as what constitutes the workplace and working relations. The publication outlines the effects of sexual harassme ...

Action Programmes for the Protection of Homeworkers
1995 - U. Huws; Protección Social Resumen disponible Homeworkers are a particularly vulnerable category of workers due to their ambiguous legal status, their isolation and their low bargaining power. Action-oriented programmes aiming to break the isolation of homeworkers also make them aware of their rights ...

Africa's informal economy : new challenge to development and employment
1997 - Sethuraman, S. V. Resumen disponible Presents a collection of papers which discuss the impact of macroeconomic policy environment and structural adjustment on the informal sector in Africa. ...

Sindicatos africanos y el reto de sindicar a las trabajadoras de los sectores no organizados - Educacion obrera, Ginebra, 92,1993, p. 45-53.
1993 - Date-Bah E. Resumen disponible Includes brief summaries of the findings of case studies on the unionization of Namibian domestic workers, rural workers' organizations in Africa, and trade unions and women workers in the informal sector in Burkina Faso and Cote d'Ivoire. ...

América Latina : brechas de equidad y progreso laboral de las mujeres en los 90
2001 - Abramo, Laís Wendel; Valenzuela, María Elena; Diálogo Social
Regiones Attached documents: 1. América Latina : brechas de equidad y progreso laboral de las mujeres en los 90.

An approach to providing occupational health services to the informal sector: Asian-Pacific newsletter on occupational health and safety
2003 - Ranjit De Alwis; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. Asian-Pacific newsletter on occupational health and safetyResumen disponible Asian-Pacific newsletter on occupational health and safety: The Informal Sector - including small-scale enterprises ILO/FINNIDA. Vol. 10, no. 1 (March 2003), Helsinki, Pages 14 - 17 ...

An Information Guide to Migration: Preventing discrimination, exploitation and abuse of women migrant workers
2003 - Empleo Resumen disponible Aims to enhance knowledge and understanding of the vulnerability of migrant workers, especially women, to discrimination, exploitation and abuse throughout the international labour migration process and to promote and improve legislation, policies and act ...

Analyse des resultats de l'enquete des unites economiques du secteur informel urbain du Benin
1996 - Maldonado C.; Cassehouin CH.; Moustapha DM.; Moreau, Chantal. Resumen disponible Analyses the results of a survey of the informal sector in Cotonou, Port-Novo, Abomey, Bohicon, Parakon and Djongou, carried out in October 1992. ...

Appui a l'auto-organisation des petits producteurs et productrices de ouagadougou, burkina faso; rapport final
1996

Appui à l'association professionnelle des Institutions Financières Mutualistes (A.P.I.F.M.) : rapport d'évaluation no. 1 : MAG/95/M01/FRG
1998 - Rauch, Hubert

Appui à l'Association professionnelle des institutions financières mutualistes : rapport d'évaluation à mi-parcours du projet BIT/BMZ, MAG/95/M01/FRG
1999 - Gobbi, Sabrina de; Ratohiarijaona, Suzelin; Steinhoff, Joachim

Asian Labour Migration: Issues and Challenges in an Era of Globalization
2002 - Piyasiri Wickramasekera; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. Asian Labour Migration: Issues and Challenges in an Era of GlobalizationResumen disponible In this paper Piyasiri Wickramasekara of ILO examines the trends and issues in Asian labour migration and challenges faced by countries and the trade union movement in protection of migrant workers. The objective of this paper is to highlight in simpl ...

Assessing the Efficiency and Outreach of Urban Micro-finance Schemes.
1996 - Chua, Ronald T.; Llanto, Gilberto M. Attached documents: 1. Assessing the Efficiency and Outreach of Urban Micro-finance SchemesResumen disponible Assesses data and information collected from five case studies on financial intermediaries (a pawnshop, a lending investor, a credit cooperative and two non governmental organizations). Makes recommendations for improving the informal sector's access to f ...

Atelier sous-régional sur l'auto-emploi et le développement de la micro et petite entreprise - Tunis, 9-12 octobre 1995
1995 - Carlos Maldonado

Attitudes à l'égard des syndicats au Bangladesh, au Brésil, en Hongrie et en Tanzanie - Revue internationale du travail, Vol 141, No 4, 2002
2002 - Sukti Dasgupta Resumen disponible Les syndicats sont le moyen d'expression traditionnel des travailleurs, mais leurs effectifs déclinent. L'auteur présente les résultats d'une enquête sur les attitudes des travailleurs, syndiqués ou non, à l'égard des syndicats au Bangladesh, au Brésil, e ...

Auto-evaluation assistee: concept et pratique
1994 - Maldonado C.; Leuzinger F.; Badiane C.

Background Paper on the Informal Sector in the Philippines.
1994 - Endaya S., Bolanos A. Resumen disponible Reviews and assesses the characteristics of the problems and needs of the informal sector of Metro Manila (Philippines), public policies which could have a direct effect on the growth and competitiveness of the sector, and the effectiveness of current act ...

Bangladesh : employment promotion in the non-formal sector
1998 - Regiones

Benin Social Expenditure and Performance Review
2001-2003 - SOC/FAS; Protección Social

"Zémidjan" de Benim : el sector informal soluciona los problemas de transporte : Trabajo, No. 28 (feb. 1999)
1999 - Gbezo, Bernard E. Resumen disponible Describes how the taxi-bike urban transport initiative in Benin appears to be solving people's mobility problems. ...

Beyond regulation: the informal economy in Latin America
1992 - Tokman V. E. Resumen disponible Considers the relationship between informality and illegality. Presents case studies of the administrative and legal costs faced by informal units that aspire to become legal, in particular the informal taxi business in Chile and Peru. ...

Beyond Survival, Organizing the Informal Economy
2000 - Diálogo Social Attached documents: 1. Organizing the Informal Economy; 2. Organizar la economía informal; 3. Organiser l'économie informelleResumen disponible Defines the problem of organizing in the informal economy and provides some advice to trade unions, governments and international organizations on what they can do. ...

Bringing Jobs to People - Employment Promotion at Regional and Local Levels
1988 - Mayer, J. Attached documents: 1. Extract on the informal sectorResumen disponible That in countries at all levels of development (even in some of the most prosperous and advanced countries), the populations of whole regions have been left behind in their countries' development, or have suffered from the economic decline of their local ...

Brochure méthodologique sur les mutuelles de santé en Afrique
BIT-ACOPAM; Empleo
     (from Poverty, Local Development and Decent Work Resources database)

Building networks: An experiment in support to small urban producers in Benin
1994 - Maldonado C. Resumen disponible Presents the ILO's Small Urban Producer Programme (SUPP) aimed at consolidating the position of small producers by organizing group-based production support services (e.g. mutual savings and loans associations and common facilties workshops). ...

Business Strategies of Informal Micro-entrepreneurs in Lima, Peru.
2003 - Valentina Zuin Attached documents: 1. Business Strategies of Informal Micro-entrepreneurs in LimaResumen disponible This paper presents the results of a field research on informal micro-entrepreneurs conducted in the Cono Norte of Lima, Peru. The research, based on semi-structured interviews, aims at understanding how micro-entrepreneurs develop their activities in a p ...

Capacitación Laboral para el Sector Informal en Colombia - Cinterfor Boletín 155
2003 - Jaime Ramírez Guerrero; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Capacitación laboral para el sector informal en ColombiaResumen disponible El presente estudio contiene una revisión general de las políticas y los programas que se han desarrollado durante los últimos años en el campo de la capacitación laboral para trabajadores y/o unidades productivas del sector informal en Colombia. ...

El trabajo asistencial : en busca de la seguridad
2001 - Daly, Mary; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. Excerpt on informal careResumen disponible This volume argues that care workers - those looking after children, the elderly and people with disabilities - require security similar to any other group of workers. It provides a valuable overview and analysis of care work as a relevant social policy p ...

Challenges of modernisation and the urban informal sector. The case of Jamaica
1998 - Alleyne, Dillon.; Jones, Donald.; Hussey, Benthan.; Regiones Resumen disponible Working Paper No. 73. Comprises three essays: Labour regulation in the small industrial enterprise sector; Jamaica's informal economy; and Taxes, regulation and the small enterprise sector. ...

Challenges to Traditional Livelihoods and Newly Emerging Employment Patterns of Pastoralists in Tanzania
2002 - Bee, Faustine K.; Diyamett, Mathew L. N.; Towo, Esther N.; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Challenges to Traditional Livelihoods and Newly Emerging Employment Patterns of Pastoralists in TanzaniaResumen disponible This report is a result of a one-month field work initiative undertaken in Simanjiro district in Arusha region through a community based consultative process. The study is an attempt to analyse and identify ways of strengthening the changing livelihood an ...

Changing Employment Patterns and the Informalization of Jobs: General trends and gender dimensions.
2001 - Lourdes Beneria; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. Changing Employment Patterns and the Informalization of JobsResumen disponible The paper argues that the processes of informalization of jobs observed during the past decades have affected both high and low-income countries. Starting at the micro level of the firm, it analyzes the factors in economic restructuring and globalization ...

Channel for change : the urban informal sector in Thailand
1996 - Regiones Resumen disponible Reviews the current situation in the urban informal sector in Thailand. Outlines the approaches of government agencies and non- governmental organizations, and identifies policy goals for improving performance in this sector. ...

Child Workers in Footwear Manufacturing in Marikina.
1994 - ILO Resumen disponible Based on interviews a sample of children and their parents, and inspections of their working environment. ...

Children in Hazardous Work in the Informal Sector in Indonesia.
1996 - Pardoen SR., Adi R., Prasadja H.; Normas y Principios y Derechos Fundamentales en el Trabajo Resumen disponible Investigates the risks and hazards that confront children under 15 years of age working in six kinds of informal employment in five regions of Indonesia. ...

CINTERFOR y la politica regional de la OIT
1996 - Garcia-Huidobro G.; Regiones

CO-OPOLIS: Board game for establishing social cooperatives
2005 - Empleo

Codes of Conduct and Multinational Enterprises
2002 - Empleo Attached documents: 1. Extract on the informal sectorResumen disponible Examines 240 corporate codes of conduct and compares their content to the provisions contained in the ILO's Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy. This publication includes a very short section on t ...

Communautés en marche au Sahel. L'impact d'un programme de développement participatif
ILO; Empleo
     (from Poverty, Local Development and Decent Work Resources database)

Community Contracts in Urban Infrastructure Works - Practical lessons from experience
2001; Jane Tournée, Wilma van Esch; Empleo
     (from Poverty, Local Development and Decent Work Resources database)

Panorama de la lucha contra la exlusión social: Conceptos y estrategias
2003 - STEP; Jordi Estivill; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. Concepts and strategies for combating social exclusion; 2. Panorama da luta contra a exclusão social. Conceitos e estratégias.; 3. Panorama de la lucha contra la exlusión social: Conceptos y estrategiasResumen disponible La exclusión social es a la vez un fenómeno del pasado y del presente y si no se le remedia, del futuro. Afecta a millones de personas que tratan de sobrevivir, en las más duras condiciones de vida y de trabajo. A lo largo de la historia, las formas de la ...

Conceptual Framework: The Informal Economy Matrix
2002 - Departamento de Integración de Políticas Attached documents: 1. Travail décent et économie informelle; 2. Decent Work and the Informal Economy; 3. El trabajo decente y la economía informalResumen disponible STAT led the development of the conceptual framework presented in Report VI: Decent Work and the Informal Economy prepared for the International Labour Conference 2002. English version - 121-125p. Version Français/Espagnol - 137-142p. ...

Confronting Economic Insecurity in Afria
2004 - Dasgupta, Sukti; Paratian, Rajendra; Protección Social Resumen disponible This book comprises a number of papers dealing with poverty, informality and insecurity in the African context. The papers were presented at a meeting held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 26-27 May 2003. ...

Consultation on the Informal Economy and the Way Forward
2002 - Regiones Attached documents: 1. Report on Applique...; 2. Abstract on Applique...; 3. Informal Economy & the Way Forward; 4. Nature of Informal Economy and Three Sectoral Studies; 5. Report on Brick-Klin Workers...; 6. Report on Construction Sector Workers...; 7. Abstract on Brick-Klin Workers...; 8. Abstract on Scrap Collectors...; 9. Abstract on Construction Sector Workers...

Contributing to the Fight Against HIV/AIDS within the Informal Economy: The existing and potential role of decentralized systems of social protection
2002 - STEP; ILO/AIDS; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. Contribution à la lutte contre le VIH/SIDA dans l'économie informelle; 2. Contributing to the Fight Against HIV/AIDS within the Informal EconomyResumen disponible Over the past four years, the Strategies and Tools against Social Exclusion and Poverty (STEP) programme of the International Labour Organization (ILO) has been exploring the potential and supporting the development of decentralized systems of social prot ...

Contribution actuelle et potentielle des Mutuelles de santé au financement,à la fourniture et à l'accès aux soins de santé: Cas du Bénin
1998 - STEP; ACOPAM; François P. Diop Attached documents: 1. Contribution actuelle et potentielle des Mutuelles de santé au financementResumen disponible L'étude a porté sur neuf pays de l'Afrique de l'Ouest et du Centre. Elle a été composée de: - un inventaire des mutuelles dans six pays: Bénin, Burkina Faso, Cameroun, Mali, Sénégal et Togo; - 22 études de cas réalisées également dans six pays: Béni ...

Contribution of Mutual Health Organizations to Financing, Delivery, and Access to Health Care: Ghana Case Study
2001 - STEP; ACOPAM; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. Contribution of Mutual Health Organizations to Financing, Delivery, and Access to Health CareResumen disponible The study represents an important step forward in documenting and understanding the MHO experience in the WCA subregion. The main purpose is to present information that could be of use to key actors in the development of the MHOs: the members and leaders ...

Cooperative Business Associations and their Potential for Developing Countries.
2003 - Marie-France Couture; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Coopératives de services d'appui aux entreprises : Quels potentiels pour les pays en développement?; 2. Cooperative Business Associations - EnglishResumen disponible The objective of this study is to consider the potential of Cooperative Business Associations (CBAs) in developing countries and to decide how useful it would be for the ILO to promote this cooperative model. The study focuses particularly on CBAs set up ...

Cooperative Management Training - MATCOM
1978-1993 - Empleo Resumen disponible The project 'Material and Techniques for Cooperative Management Training' (MATCOM) was launched in 1978 by the International Labour Office. The project developed universal cooperative management training material, which was put at the disposal of national ...

Sindicatos y economía informal
2002 - Mark Levin; Diálogo Social Attached documents: 1. Educación Obrera 2002/2 Número 127; 2. Education ouvrière 2002/2 Numéro 127; 3. Labour Education No. 127 (2002)Resumen disponible Cooperatives and trade unions are developing joint strategies to protect workers in the informal sector. The ILO is helping them to do so. Educación Obrera 2002/2 Número 127, p28-33 Education ouvrière 2002/2 Numéro 127, p29-35 Labour Education 2002/ ...

Cost-effectiveness of management training in the informal sector in africa; final report
1991 - Nuebler I. Resumen disponible Shows that many participants gained from the seminar at various levels. Applied indicators could identify and measure benefits accrued to the business women. Some evidence that training seminars without further assistance (like credit) are more effective ...

Crecimiento Con Empleo: La experiencia de los paises latinoamericanos y del sud-este asiatico.
1997 - R. Infante, V. E. Tokman Resumen disponible En este documento se intenta identificar las características de un patrón de crecimiento que sea sostenido y genere empleos de buena calidad, que permitan reducir la pobreza y la desigualdad distributiva reforzando, con ello, las relaciones entre desarrol ...

Credit Unions and the Poverty Challenge - Extending Outreach, Enhancing Sustainability
1999 - Editor: Bernd Balkenhol; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Extract on The Informal Financial SectorResumen disponible Reviews experiences of refinancing credit unions in several developing countries. Examines their capacity to increase members' shares or mobilize deposits, how refinancing facilities have influenced the quality of the loan portfolio, whether external cred ...

Credito y capacitacion para el sector informal
1987 - Mezzera J.; Regiones

Dar es Salaam: Occupational safety and health in the informal sector.
1996 - Forastieri V.; Riwa PG.; Swai D. Resumen disponible Describes a experimental pilot project on occupational safety and health for 11 informal sector clusters in two districts of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in 1995. ...

De la informalidad a la modernidad
2001 - Victor E. Tokman Resumen disponible Le tesis central del libro pone énfasis en los mecanismos de acceso con una perspectiva que significa reverir el orden actual. Este exige cumplir las obligaciones sin asegurar el reconocimiento previo de los derechos, algo inhabilitante para quienes, como ...

De la informalidad a la modernidad - Cinterfor Boletín 155
2003 - Tokman, V.; Regiones Attached documents: 1. De la Informalidad a la ModernidadResumen disponible La creciente informalización del trabajo obliga a elaborar estrategias de apoyo a la regulación, formalización y odernización de dicho sector. No obstante, el autor enfatiza que las acciones deben garantizar la participación e integración de los actores ...

Decent Work and Development Policies: Caribbean Tripartite Workshop
2004 - Virgilio Levaggi; Regiones Resumen disponible Decent Work and Development Policies: Caribbean Tripartite Workshop: 2-5 March 2004, Hilton Hotel, Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago The workshop aimed at answering two major questions: 1. What are some of the critical economic and social challenges ...

Decent Work and Poverty Reduction Strategies: A reference manual for ILO staff and constituents
2005 - Cross Sectoral Attached documents: 1. Decent Work and Poverty Reduction Strategies: A reference manual for ILO staff and constituentsResumen disponible This Reference Manual has been developed primarily for ILO field staff and constituents to provide guidance on strengthening the linkages between the Decent Work Agenda and national Poverty Reduction Strategies (PRSs). The Manual provides basic backgro ...

Decent Work and the Informal Economy - General Discussion: Plenary session: Adoption of the resolution and conclusions
2002 Attached documents: 1. Plenary Session - French; 2. Plenary Session - English; 3. Plenary Session - SpanishResumen disponible Decent work and the informal economy was the subject of a general discussion at the International Labour Conference 2002. Related documents: Report VI presented to the committee, Report of the committee, Resolution and Conclusions of the committee. ...

Decent Work and the Informal Economy - Report VI presented for the General Discussion at the International Labour Conference 2002
2002 - Empleo Attached documents: 1. Informe VI; 2. Rapport VI; 3. Report VIResumen disponible Decent work and the informal economy was the subject of a general discussion at the International Labour Conference in June 2002. Related documents: Report of the Committee, Resolution and Conclusion of the Committee and Plenary Session. ...

Decent Work and the Informal Economy: 2002 Conference CD Rom
2002 - Empleo Resumen disponible CD ROM produced for the follow-up to the General Discussion on Decent Work and the Informal Economy of the International Labour Conference (ILC) 2002. The CD ROM contains: - Report VI on Decent Work and the Informal Economy (in English, French and Sp ...

El Trabajo Decente y la Economía Informal: Resúmenes de Documentos
2002 - Empleo Attached documents: 1. Decent Work and the Informal Economy: Abstracts; 2. Travail décent et économie informelle; 3. El Trabajo Decente y la Economía InformalResumen disponible Como parte de las labores preparatorias para la discusión general sobre la economía informal que se mantendrá con motivo de la 90a Conferencia Internacional del Trabajo (CIT), en junio de 2002 en Ginebra, el grupo inter-sectoral de trabajo sobre la econom ...

Decent Work and the Informal Economy: CD Rom with 2002 Background papers
2002 - Empleo Resumen disponible The CD ROM contains: - Women and Men in the Informal Economy: A statistical picture - Decent Work and the Informal Economy: Abstracts of working papers - Globalization and the Informal Economy: How global trade and investment impact on the working ...

Decent Work and the Informal Economy: Report of the Commmittee - International Labour Conference 2002
2002 Resumen disponible Decent work and the informal economy was the subject of a general discussion at the International Labour Conference 2002. Other related documents: Report VI presented to the Committee, Resolution and conclusions and Plenary Session. ...

Decent work and the informal economy: Report on 2002 ILO Conference - Tokyo
2002

Decent Work and the Informal Economy: Resolution and Conclusions from the International Labour Conference General Discussion 2002.
2002 Attached documents: 1. Resolución; 2. Résolution; 3. Resolution and ConclusionsResumen disponible Decent work and the informal economy was the subject of a general discussion at the International Labour Conference 2002. Other related documents: Report VI presented to the Committee, Report of the Committee and Plenary Session. ...

Decent work for all: targeting full employment in Thailand
2000 - Regiones Attached documents: 1. Extract on the informal sectorResumen disponible This paper, Decent work for all: Targeting full employment in Thailand, presents a timely examination of the issues and challenges in tackling the employment situation in Thailand. It is one of a series of Country Employment Policy Reviews carried out as ...

Decent work for poverty reduction: an ILO contribution to the PRSP in Nepal
ILO; Empleo
     (from Poverty, Local Development and Decent Work Resources database)

Decent Work for Women Entrepreneurs: Training of trainers workshop
2004 - Cross Sectoral Resumen disponible This report describes the proceedings of

Decent Work in the Informal Sector: CEE/CIS Region.
2002 - B. Musiolek; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Decent Work in the Informal Sector: CEE/CIS RegionResumen disponible The present paper identifies some of the key factors, characteristics, variations and forms of informality in Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States and other former Soviet republics. The report highlights the dramatic downs ...

Decent Work in the Informal Sector: Latin America.
2002 - J. Thomas; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Decent Work in the Informal Sector: Latin AmericaResumen disponible The present paper highlights some of the characteristics of the region, including the high overall levels of urbanization and the impact of globalization which has led to retrenchment and informalisation of employment in the formal sector. Latin America e ...

Decent Work Pilot Programme - Panama
2000-2006 Attached documents: 1. Decent Work Pilot Programme - Country BriefsResumen disponible This DWPP has a specific informal economy element as does Ghana and the Philippines. In the future other DWPPs may also have informal economy elements. For Panama see page 40 of the Country Briefs. ...

Decent Work Pilot Programme - Philippines
2000-2006 Attached documents: 1. Decent Work Pilot Programmes - Country BriefsResumen disponible This Decent Work Pilot Programme has a specific informal economy element, as does Ghana and Panama. In the future more DWPPs may also have informal economy elements. For the Philippines see page 45 of the Country Briefs. ...

Decent Work Pilot Programme in Ghana.
2000-2006 Attached documents: 1. Decent Work Pilot Programme - Country Briefs 2003Resumen disponible This DWPP has an explicit informal economy element as does the Philippines and Panama. In the future other DWPPs may also have an informal economy element. See page 25 of the Country Briefs for the section on Ghana. ...

Delnet News: Delnet Programme Newsletter - Issue 3, October/November 2003
2003 - International Training Center of the ILO (TURIN); Regiones

Desafios da modernização e setor informal urbano: O caso de Brasil
1998 - M. C. Cacciamali; L. de Lima; A. do Vale; R. Mello; J. Saboia; Regiones

Desafíos de la modernización y sector informal urbano : el caso de Colombia
1998 - L. R. Gómez; G. Huertas; D. Olea.; Regiones Resumen disponible Documento de trabajo no. 87 ...

Desafíos de la modernización y sector informal urbano. El caso de Chile
1998 - P. Baltera; R. Urmeneta,; Regiones Resumen disponible Documento de trabajo no. 70 ...

Designing programmes to improve working and employment conditions in the informal economy : a literature review
2004 - Rinehart, Richard D.; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. Designing programmes to improve working and employment conditions in the informal economy : a literature reviewResumen disponible Reviews literature related to promoting working and employment conditions for women and men in microenterprises, small enterprises and the informal economy. Analyses the approaches and strategies that have made a positive difference in peoples' lives. ...

Development finance as institution building: a new approach to poverty-oriented banking
1994 - Krahnen JP.; Schmidt RH.

Development of the urban informal sector: policies and strategies; a discussion paper
1994 - Regiones Resumen disponible Paper from the Asian Sub-Regional Seminar On Employment Policies For The Urban Informal Sector In South Asia (1993 : Dhaka) Discusses the importance of the urban informal sector in employment generation in South Asia. ...

Development Policies and Institutional Environment for Employment Promotion in the Informal Sector in Nigeria - the case of Kano
1991 - Adenihi EO. Resumen disponible Based on a survey of 820 informal sector enterprises, examines the main features of the informal enterprise, identifies policies which affect the development of the sector, and makes recommendations to strengthen employment promotion in the sector. ...

Dilema del sector no estructurado
1991 - Director-General of the International Labour Office

Dinamica de los mercados de trabajo y distribucion del ingreso en America
1979 - Tokman VE.; Regiones Resumen disponible ILO pub-WEP pub-PREALC pub. Conference paper analysing labour market and income distribution trends in Latin America during the 1960's decade - examines the evolution of wages and minimum wages, unemployment rate, the relationships between urban areas, ru ...

Does Informal Credit Provide Security? Rural banking policy in India.
V. K. Ramachandran, M. Swaminathan; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. Does Informal Credit Provide Security? Rural banking policy in IndiaResumen disponible This paper deals with rural banking and credit policy in contemporary India and with the effect of the current policy of financial liberalization on the credit portfolios of rural workers. It examines, first, the major directions of rural banking and cred ...

Dynamism in the informal sector in a fast growing economy: the case of Bangkok
1994 - Romijn HB.; Regiones Resumen disponible Based on the results of a field survey conducted during September- October 1989, which covered 300 small and informal activities spread out over 19 districts in Metropolitan Bangkok. ...

e-quality@work
2004 - GENPROM; Empleo Resumen disponible e-quality@work is a factual, not analytical, compilation of available information on equal employment opportunities and can be used as a practical tool for: - Reviewing or remforming legislation - Institutional capacity building - Technical assist ...

Economics of household-operated activities in the Philippines: macro and micro perspectives
1993 - Alonzo RP.; Regiones

Effects of extreme de-regulation of the labour market: Chile 1974- 1990
1995 - Lagos RA.; Regiones Resumen disponible Examines the consequences in Chile of the deregulation of the labour market within the economic restructuring process launched in the mid- 1970s. ...

El diálogo social en los países andinos : nuevo camino para los sindicatos?
2000 - Sepúlveda Malbrán, Juan Manuel; Vega Ruiz, María Luz; Regiones Resumen disponible El dialogo social será uno de los fundamentos centrales de la estabilidad social. El documento pretende ser una reflexión sistemática sobre la evolución y las perspectivas del diálogo social con especial referencia a los países andinos. El trabajo se inic ...

El plan nacional para el desarrollo de la microempresa (PNDM) de Colombia: un análisis desde la perspectiva de su desarrollo institucional
1998 - Ramírez Guerrero, Jaime.; Regiones Resumen disponible usses the National Plan of Action implemented in Colombia from 1984 to 1994 to support microenterprises. ...

El sector informal de la economía características de la micro y pequeña empresa en Costa Rica
2001 - Regiones

Empleo en America latina y la heterogeneidad del sector informal
1990 - Klein E.; Regiones

Empleo no registrado en el Mercosur y las políticas para reducirlo
1998 - Galin, Pedro; Regiones

Empleo no registrado en el periodo 1989-1994
1995 - Galin P.; Regiones Resumen disponible Based on household survey data, analyses clandestine employment in Greater Buenos Aires from 1989 to 1994. ...

Employers' Participation in Small and Medium Enterprise Development and the Informal Economy: 23 to 24 May 2005, Ochos Rios, Jamaica
2005 - Regiones Resumen disponible To exchange the findings of surveys conducted in each country for charactering the Informal Economy and for promoting SME development as a viable sector for employment creation and sustenance; · To ascertain the national economic and social policy e ...

Employing Foreign Workers: A Manual on Policies and Procedures of Special Interest to Middle- and Low-Income Countries
1996 - Boehning WR Attached documents: 1. The Informal SectorResumen disponible This guide addresses issues including: Would a country be well advised to permit local employers to hire foreign workers? What procedures should be put in place if migrant labour is needed? What role should the State play and what role could private re ...

Employment and social protection in the informal sector - thematic evaluation (a): Employment in the informal sector - challenges and future agenda (b)
2000 - Papers of the Governing Body. 277th Session (March 2000) Attached documents: 1. (b) L'emploi dans le secteur informel: enjeux et action future; 2. (a) Employment and social protection in the informal sector ; 3. (a) Empleo y protección social en el sector informal; 4. (b) Employment in the informal sector - challenges and future agenda ; 5. (b) Empleo y protección social en el sector informal; 6. (a) Emploi et protection sociale dans le secteur informelResumen disponible Highlights emerging trends and policy issues with regard to employment in the informal sector and their implications for the ILO's future approach to the sector, especially as regards employment promotion. ...

Employment Creation and Employment Quality in African Manufacturing Firms.
2002 - Goedhuys, Micheline; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Employment Creation and Employment QualityResumen disponible This study, applying econometric methods to a unique longitudinal data set of Tanzanian manufacturing firms put together by the World Bank, explores differences in net employment creation in firms of different sizes, and relates them to characteristics of ...

Employment Creation in the Informal Economy in India
2000 Attached documents: 1. Employment Creation in the Informal Economy in India: Report of the proceedings; 2. Speech delivered by Mr. Juan SomaviaResumen disponible Report of the Proceedings of the

Employment crisis in Latin America - International Labor Review, 123 (5), 1984
1984 - Tokman, Victor Resumen disponible Article on employment policy options to deal with rising trends in urban area unemployment and underemployment in Latin America as a result of economic recession - notes the large informal sector and high rural migration; discusses state intervention in t ...

Employment in the Informal Economy in the Republic of Moldova.
2004 - Departamento de Integración de Políticas Attached documents: 1. Employment in the Informal Economy in the Republic of MoldovaResumen disponible This publication is meant for circulation to a large audience of users of statistical information. It contains information on: international recommendations on the topic; the activities undertaken jointly by the DSS specialists and the international exper ...

Employment of Homeworkers: Examples of good practice
1995 - U. Huws and S. Podro; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. Employment of Homeworkers: Examples of good practiceResumen disponible The employment and working conditions of homeworkers, including home-based teleworkers, tend to be inferior to those enjoyed by other workers doing similar work in the enterprise setting. This is often due to the lack of adequate labour legislation and co ...

Employment Relations and Labour Law in the Dar es Salaam Informal Sector.
1996 - Tajgman, D. Resumen disponible Based on the results of a survey of persons working for others - employees - in the informal sector. The survey focused on the employment relationship of the respondents, as well as their work history, the terms and conditions under which they worked and ...

Employment-Intensive Infrastructure Programmes : Labour policies and practices
2003 - Tajgman, David ; Veen, J. J. de Resumen disponible Based on studies and the experience of ILO technical cooperation projects. Includes recommendations for government ministries, and workers' and employers' organizations. French and Spanish versions are expected. At this point (23 March 2005) no hol ...

Enabling policy framework for urban informal sector, Thailand; ILO Japan project on strategic approaches toward employment promotion ( phase ii)
1995 - Prompunthum V.

Debate inconcluso sobre el trabajo no remunerado - Revista Internacional del Trabjo. Vol. 118, No3, 1999
1999 - Lourdes Benaría Resumen disponible Hace ya muchos años que se prolonga el debate sobre si debe medirse el trabajo no remunerado y sobre el problema subyacente de la infravaloración del trabajo femenino en las estadísticas laborales y en las cuentas nacionales. He aquí un resumen de las pri ...

Enhancing National Capacities on Home Work through HomeNet Thailand.
2001 - ILO; Regiones

Igualdad, representación y participación para un trabajo decente
2001 - Bob Hepple Resumen disponible Legal instruments currently embody a variety of conceptions of equality. While formal equality typically carries negative duties (e.g. non-discrimination), the concept of substantive equality embodies three overlapping approaches - equality of results, eq ...

Equality, Labour and Social Protection for Women and Men in the Formal and Informal Economy in Viet Nam: Issues for advocacy and policy development
2003 - Regiones Attached documents: 1. Equality, Labour and Social Protection for Women and Men in the Formal and Informal Economy in Viet Nam: Issues for advocacy and policy developmentResumen disponible This study consisted of a desk review of published statistics and analyses of employment, labour and social protection in Viet Nam, as well as two small scale surveys among enterprises with many women workers in 2000 and informal economy workers in 2001, ...

Ethiopian Women Entrepreneurs, striding with confidence and poise.
IFP/SEED, Employment Sector; Empleo

Ethiopian Women Entrepreneurs: Going for Growth
2003 - Empleo
Regiones Attached documents: 1. Ethiopian Women Entrepreneurs: Going for GrowthResumen disponible This report on

Expansion of Social Security to the Informal Sector
2002 - Regiones

Experiencas de apoyo al sector informal urbano
1993 - Mezzera J.; Regiones

Exploration into the nature of informal-formal sector interrelationships
1977 - Tokman VE.; Regiones Resumen disponible Prealc-ILO pub-WEP pub. Monograph on the relationship between the informal sector and formal sector with particular reference to the economy of Chile - analyses the structure of the informal sector, the size of enterprise, balance of payments, consumption ...

Exploración de la viabilidad de un fideicomiso social mundial
2002 Attached documents: 1. Exploración de la viabilidad de un fideicomiso social mundial; 2. Etude de la faisabilité d'une Fiducie sociale mondiale; 3. Exploring the Feasibility of a Global Social Trust

Extending health insurance in Senegal: Options for statutory schemes and mutual organisations
2002-2002 - Fall, Couty; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. F535887417/477sp1.pdf; 2. F878152013/476sp1.pdf

Extending maternity protection to women in the informal economy: An overview of community-based health-financing schemes
2003 - STEP; CONDIT; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. Extending maternity protection to women in the informal economyResumen disponible This overview is part of a selection of studies exploring possibilities to extend maternity protection to women in the informal economy using micro-insurance and other community-based health-financing schemes. Initial exploratory research has been carried ...

Extending Maternity Protection to Women in the Informal Economy: The case of India (VimoSEWA)
2002 - STEP; CONDIT; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. Extending Maternity Protection to Women in the Informal EconomyResumen disponible This paper is part of a series exploring possibilities to extend maternity protection to women in the informal economy through micro-insurance and other community-based health-financing schemes. Initial exploratory research has been carried out, which loo ...

Extending Maternity Protection to Women in the Informal Economy: The case of Nepal
2002 - STEP; CONDIT; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. Extending Maternity Protection to Women in the Informal EconomyResumen disponible This paper is part of a series exploring possibilities to extend maternity protection to women in the informal economy through micro-insurance and other community-based health-financing schemes. Initial exploratory research has been carried out, which loo ...

Extending Social Protection in Health through Community Based Health Organizations: Evidence and challenges
2002 - STEP; UNIVERSITAS; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. Extending Social Protection in Health through Community Based Health Organizations

Extending Social Security: Policies for Developing Countries
2003; Wouter van Ginneken; Protección Social
     (from Poverty, Local Development and Decent Work Resources database)

Extension of social security coverage for the informal economy in Indonesia : surveys in the urban and rural informal economy
2004 - Angelini, John; Hirose, Kenichi; Regiones Resumen disponible This paper focuses on the extension of social security coverage to workers in the informal economy. In particular, the paper presents the results of surveys assessing social security needs of workers in the informal economy in both urban and rural areas. ...

Extention of Social Security
Protección Social Resumen disponible A series of working papers (ESS) are available which discuss the extension of social security in various countries. ...

External Liberalization, Macroeconomic Instability and the Labour Market in Brazil.
2002 - Matias Vernengo; Empleo Attached documents: 1. External Liberalization, Macroeconomic Instability and the Labour Market in BrazilResumen disponible This Employment Working Paper (no. 2002/44) argues that, in Brazil, trade liberalization, which occurred only in the early 1990s, led to rather puzzling developments. It failed to stimulate manufactured exports but substantially boosted manufactured impor ...

Feasability Study for the Establishment of a Common Facility Center in Marikina.
1994 - Sea Consultants Resumen disponible Based on a sample survey of leather goods and footwear manufacturers in Marikina (Philippines), provides a full assessment of the technical and financial feasibility of a common facility centre in view of determining whether it should be established. ...

Federation of Kenya Employers: Case study.
2002 - C. O. Nyangute; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Federation of Kenya Employers: Case studyResumen disponible This paper describes the involvement of one of Africa's oldest and most established employers' organizations in supporting the development of dynamic, growth-oriented enterprises in the informal sector. FKE became involved in supporting micro- and small-s ...

Federation of Trade Unions of Macedonia CCM.
2002 - L. Jankulovska; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Federation of Trade Unions of MacedoniaResumen disponible Originally prepared for a sub-regional meeting of trade unions, the ILO arranged for translation of this paper into English. The objective was to understand how the trade union movement perceived the employment situation, particularly in some of the poore ...

Female Itinerant Maize Traders in Southern Mozambique: A study of a higher-end informal sector activity and its potential for poverty reduction.
2001 - F. De Fletter Resumen disponible Based on a study of 20 female maize traders, explores their motives for undertaking this activity, investigates trading- related activities and estimates costs and profits. Examines the constraints faced by these women and highlights the importance of mic ...

Financing of Social Protection
2004 - M. Cichon et al.; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. Financing Social ProtectionResumen disponible Discusses the design and maintenance of national social protection systems that ensure an effective and efficient use of available resources at the community, national and international levels, while supporting long-term economic development. Guides throu ...

Flexibility and security in the labour market : Hungary' s experience
2005 - János Köllõ; Beáta Nacsa; Regiones Resumen disponible Discusses the current state of the Hungarian labour market through an international comparison, introduces the most important institutions conditioning wage setting, hiring, firing and other aspects of the employment relationship and reviews the existing ...

Flexibility and Security in the Labour Market: Croatia's Experience
2005 - Sanja Crnkovic-Pozaic; Regiones Resumen disponible Discusses the issues of flexibility/security of employment in Croatia, focusing on formal and infomal segments of the labour market, looks at how they interact and examines how changes in legislation, policy and institutions influence both. ...

Flexibilizing Employment: An Overview
2003 - Kim Van Eyck; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Flexibilizing Employment: An OverviewResumen disponible This paper in order to expand the knowledge base on the process of informalization of the formal economy, a process that is contributing to the rapid growth of the informal economy worldwide. The objective of the paper goes beyond that of defining the ...

Foreign labour in Lithuania: Immigration, employment and illegal work
1999 - A. Sipavicieno; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. Foreign labour in Lithuania: Immigration, employment and illegal workResumen disponible This study examines the immigration, employment and illegal work of foreign nationals in Lithuania. Similar studies have been carried out on the situation in the Czech Republic, Hungary and the Russian Federation. The objective of the research is to pr ...

Formación en calificaciones en el sector informal en China
2003 - Grupo de Investigaciones del Departamento de Formación y Empleo del Ministerio de Trabajo y Seguridad Social de China; Regiones Attached documents: 1. Formación en calificaciones en el sector informal en ChinaResumen disponible El crecimiento del sector informal en China permitió aliviar presiones y reajustes en el mercado laboral, transformando a la capacitación y formación de dichos trabajadores en un problema de urgente atención por parte del gobierno. La descripción y el aná ...

Formalization of Enterprises through Registration
1994 - Allal M; Roaring E; Roaring V Resumen disponible Based on a sample survey of both registered and non- registered enterprises. Seeks to identify the reasons or constraints which prevent enterprises from formally registering. Volume I describes the current registration procedures, assesses the findings of ...

Formation des Inspecteurs du Travail dans le Cadre d'une Politique Nationale du Travail au Burkina Faso, Burundi, Rwanda, Sénégal
1998 Resumen disponible OBJECTIVES: National labour policy concerning safety and health at the workplace in selected countries reformed with emphasis on the informal and agricultural sectors. Labour inspectors trained to undertake inspections in the sectors. Central labour inspe ...

Formation à l'autogestion des périmètres irrigués: Base méthodologique du programme d'alphabétisation fonctionelle
1995; BIT-ACOPAM; Empleo
     (from Poverty, Local Development and Decent Work Resources database)

Formation à l'autogestion des périmètres irrigués: Guide d'évaluation du programme d'alphabétisaton fonctionnelle
1996; BIT-ACOPAM; Empleo
     (from Poverty, Local Development and Decent Work Resources database)

Formation à l'autogestion des périmètres irrigués: La redevance
1996; BIT-ACOPAM; Empleo
     (from Poverty, Local Development and Decent Work Resources database)

Formation à l'autogestion des périmètres irrigués: Première phase du programme d'alphabétisation fonctionelle
1995; BIT-ACOPAM; Empleo
     (from Poverty, Local Development and Decent Work Resources database)

Formation à l'autogestion des périmètres irrigués: Troisième phase du programme d'alphabétisaton fonctionnelle
1996; BIT-ACOPAM; Empleo
     (from Poverty, Local Development and Decent Work Resources database)

Formation à la gestion des banques céréalières - Auto-évaluation
BIT-ACOPAM; Empleo
     (from Poverty, Local Development and Decent Work Resources database)

Formation à la gestion des banques céréalières: Approvisionnement, stockage et cession des céréales
1997; BIT-ACOPAM; Empleo
     (from Poverty, Local Development and Decent Work Resources database)

Formation à la gestion des banques céréalières: Bilan de la campagne
BIT-ACOPAM; Empleo
     (from Poverty, Local Development and Decent Work Resources database)

Formation à la gestion des banques céréalières: Comptabilité
1997; BIT-ACOPAM; Empleo
     (from Poverty, Local Development and Decent Work Resources database)

Formation à la gestion des banques céréalières: Organisation interne
1997; BIT-ACOPAM; Empleo
     (from Poverty, Local Development and Decent Work Resources database)

Formation, emploi et productivite dans le secteur non structure urbain; une etude prospective
1976 - Nihan G. Resumen disponible ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper exploring the link between training, urban area employment and productivity in the urban area informal sector of developing countries - includes small scale industry, the self employed, handicrafts activities and low income ...

FORMUJER: Programa Regional para el Fortalecimiento de la formación profesional y técnica de mujeres de bajos ingresos
Regiones Resumen disponible FORMUJER es un programa regional, co-financiado por el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo. Su coordinación regional y supervisión técnica y metodológica está a cargo de CINTERFOR/OIT y la ejecución de los Proyectos Pilotos Nacionales es encarada por el Mi ...

Franchising as an "Integrating" Approach to the Informal Sector: Some preliminary findings.
1996 - Bangasser, PE Resumen disponible Discusses how to use franchising as a means of integrating the informal sector into mainstream economic life. ...

From the Shadows to the Fore: Practical actions for the social protection of homeworkers
1993 - Lazo, L Resumen disponible Three papers on homeworkers: Thailand: Includes: a report on a survey of 132 homebased workers from eight selected villages; a project report on building a network of rural women homeworkers; a project report on training and developing women homeworker ...

Future of urban employment (5th June 1996, Istanbul, Turkey) : report and proceedings
1996 Resumen disponible From: United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (2nd : 1996 : Istanbul, Turkey) Focuses on globalization and the future of the formal and informal urban economy, and on poverty and unemployment and the need to establish social safety nets to maxi ...

Gender and Population in the Adjustment of African Economies: Planning for Change
1991 - Palmer, Ingrid Attached documents: 1. Gender and Population in the Adjustment of African Economies: Planning for Change - The informal sectorResumen disponible Structural adjustment issues, gender issues and demographic issues are all of great concern to policy-makers and scholars. To date, however, their intersection has not received sufficient attention. These interrelationships take on added importance in ...

Gender and Population in the Adjustment of African Economies: Planning for Change - 2nd Edition
1994 - Palmer I. Attached documents: 1. Extract on employment in the informal sectorResumen disponible Addresses the interrelationships between structural adjustment issues, gender issues and demographic issues in sub-Saharan Africa. Based on examples from a number of African countries from both the agricultural and non- agricultural sector, it analyses ho ...

Gender and the Informal Economy in Latin America: New challenges and possible answers from the point of view of labour training policies
Anaclara Matosas; Sara Silvera; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Género y Economía Informal ; 2. Gender and the Informal Economy - EnglishResumen disponible Initial assumptions and guidelines for an occupational training policy focusing on the improvement of employability and gender equity. Drafted by Sara Silveira and Anaclara Matosas, Cinterfor/ILO. ...

Gender Dimension of Skill Development in Nepal: Focus on Access to Training for Women and Socially Excluded Groups: Employment Opportunities after Training.
2002 - M. P. Mainali; B. Sharma and B. Shrestha; Empleo

Gender Dimensions of the Economic Crisis and Employment in Urban Informal and Rural Sectors in Indonesia
2000 - Adioetomo, Sri Moertiningsih; Handayani, Dwini; Sri Harijati Hatmadji; Otobe, Naoko; Regiones Resumen disponible Examines the specific gender dimensions of the impact of the economic crisis and analyses various effects of changing economic factors on employment of both men and women workers in the urban informal and rural sectors using survey and focus group discuss ...

Gender Equality and the Extension of Social Protection
2003 - Rachel Sabates-Wheeler; Naila Kabeer; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. Gender Equality and the Extension of Social ProtectionResumen disponible Gender is rarely used as a differentiating lens by which to understand more fully the various experiences and ramifications of the social protection agenda. This paper takes as its starting point the overwhelming evidence that women occupy a disadvantaged ...

Gender Equality in the World of Work
2003 - Bureau for Gender Equality Attached documents: 1. Gender in the World of Work - Issue 4Resumen disponible ILO Electronic newsletter. Issue 7, January-April 2004 Sections referring to informal economy: - Gender statistics become a core prinicipal - Empowering women in the Islamic Republic of Iran - Promoting decent work for women in India - Equalit ...

Gender Equality: A Guide to Collective Bargaining
2002; Elizabeth Goodson, Faith O'Neill, Kathini Maloba-Caines, Shauna Olney; Diálogo Social
     (from Poverty, Local Development and Decent Work Resources database)

Gender Mainstreaming in Technical Cooperation Projects: the experience of the ILO Global Programme STEP
2003 - STEP; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. Gender Mainstreaming in Technical Cooperation ProjectsResumen disponible The Global Programme STEP (Strategies and Tools against Social Excusion and Poverty) has since its inception, put emphasis on undertaking regular internal evaluations on how the gender dimension is being considered in its activities related to technical c ...

Giving voice to the unprotected workers in the informal economy in Africa : the case of Zimbabwe
2004 - Kanyenze, Godfrey; Regiones Resumen disponible Examines the growth of the informal economy since 1980. Presents interventions by the ILO, the government and trade unions. ...

Global Campaign on Social Security and Coverage for All
2002-2006 - STEP; Social Protection Sector; Protección Social Resumen disponible The first phase of the campaign seeks to place the extension of social security at the top of the development agenda in as many countries as possible. National and international policy makers will receive assitance in developing strategies to extend cover ...

Global Employment Agenda
Employment Sector; Empleo Attached documents: 1. l' Agenda global pour l'emploi - Conseil d'administration 2003; 2. Global Employment Agenda - Discussion paper; 3. Del Programa Global de Empleo - Consejo de Administración 2003; 4. Global Employment Agenda - Governing Body Review 2003Resumen disponible Outlines a new approach which would enhance the success of employment policies. This approach stresses the integration of economic and social policies, and the interaction between sound macroeconomic and development policies and well-functioning labour ma ...

Global Employment Trends
2003 - Employment Sector; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Global Employment Trends - Governing Body paper; 2. Tendances mondiales de l'emploi - Conseil d'administration; 3. Tendencias del empleo mundial - Consejo de AdministraciónResumen disponible This paper reports on global employment trends in the current economic conjuncture and presents an analysis with examples of the effectiveness of economic and employment policies to promote employment growth. A summary of current global and regional e ...

Global Social Trust.
2002 - Protección Social Attached documents: 1. The Global Social Trust pilot project - Governing Body Paper; 2. El proyecto piloto de Fideicomiso Social - Consejo de Administración; 3. Le projet pilote de Fiducie sociale - Conseil d'administrationResumen disponible Status review of the Global Social Trust - an innovative concept in which individual contributors in donor countries are brought together in partnership with recipient countries to extend sustainable social security provision. ...

La globalización y la economía informal: las repercusiones de la globalización del comercio y la inversión en los trabajadores pobres
2002 - Marilyn Carr and Martha Alter Chen; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Globalization and the Informal Economy: How Global Trade and Investment Impact on the Working Poor; 2. La globalización y la economía informal: las repercusiones de la globalización del comercio y la inversión en los trabajadores pobres; 3. Mondialisation et économie informelle: l'impact de la mondialisation des échanges et des investissements sur les travailleurs pauvresResumen disponible El presente estudio, reunir los elementos empíricos actualmente existentes sobre la globalización y la economía informal haciendo especial hincapié en las mujeres trabajadoras y productoras. Muestra la manera en que la globalización tiende a dar paso a fo ...

Globalization, gender and employment in the informal economy : the case of the Philippines
2000 - Dejillas, Leopoldo J.; Regiones Resumen disponible Examines gender-differentiated effects of globalization on the Philippine informal sector. Investigates, in particular, whether or not there are significant gender-differentiated patterns and changes in the nature and level of employment, wages and income ...

Globalización y migraciones laborales: importancia de la protección
2003 - Patrick A. Taran; Eduardo Geronimi; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. Globalization, Labour and Migration: Protection is Paramount; 2. Globalización y migraciones laborales: importancia de la protección; 3. Globalisation et migrations de main-d'oeuvre: Importance de la protectionResumen disponible La movilidad internacional de mano de obra ha aumentado bajo las condiciones contemporáneas de globalización, al tiempo que se han acelerado los niveles de explotación y de desregulación. La falta de una protección jurídica para los trabajadores migrantes ...

Globalization, social exclusion and work: with special reference to informal employment and gender
2004 - Marilyn Carr; Martha Chen; Departamento de Integración de Políticas Attached documents: 1. Globalization, social exclusion and work: with special reference to informal employment and genderResumen disponible The paper focuses therefore on the nature of employment opportunities associated with globalization: notably, the terms of inclusion (of paid workers) and the barriers to inclusion (of the self-employed) in global production systems; and the forms of excl ...

Good Municipal Governance in the Informal Economy: Ensuring rights and opportunities for decent work.
2002 - IFP/SEED; Employment Sector; Empleo

Good Practice Study in Shanghai on Employment Services for the Informal Economy.
2002 - J. Howell; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Good Practice Study in Shanghai on Employment Services for the Informal EconomyResumen disponible The paper presents the historical context of changes in labour market policies since 1947 and the current crisis of growing numbers of unemployed workers. These include retrenched workers due to privatisation and restructuring of industry as well as incre ...

Governance of globalization - The ILO contribution
1998 - Robert Kyloh; Diálogo Social Attached documents: 1. Governance of globalization - The ILO contributionResumen disponible Deals with several aspects of the international trade union agenda which are being developed in response to the challenge of globalization. Explains and elaborates policies and position papers adopted by various international trade union centres, as well ...

Government policies and the urban informal sector in sub-saharan Africa: a comparative study on Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and Angola
1993 - Assuncao P.

Growing out of Poverty: How employment promotion can improve the lives of the urban poor
2005 - Kees van der Ree; Marja Kuiper; Empleo Attached documents: 1. F453227141/WP74-2005.pdfResumen disponible This paper documents the employment dimension of urban poverty reduction strategies in general slum-upgrading in particular, and builds the argument that employment generation for the urban poor can be effectively promoted at the local level through the s ...

Guía Educativa sobre Cadenas Productivas, Trabajo a Domicilio y Organización Sindical
2004 - Editores: Laís Abramo; Eduardo Rodríguez Calderón; Giovanna Rossignotti; Empleo Resumen disponible Presents a guide, geared to help analyse and strengthen trade union's participation in the formulation and promotion of decent working conditions for those working at home and in production chains. ...

Guía para la Realización de Estudios de Caso de Sistemas de Seguro de Salud (Micro-seguros)
1999 - STEP; OPS; Protección Social
Regiones Attached documents: 1. Guía para la Realización de Estudios de Caso de Sistemas de Seguro de Salud

Género y economía informal en América Latina. Nuevos retos y respuestas posibles desde las políticas de formación para el trabajo
2003 - Sara Silveira; Anaclara Matosas; Regiones Attached documents: 1. Género y economía informal en América Latina. Nuevos retos y respuestas posibles desde las políticas de formación para el trabajoResumen disponible La flexibilidad, inestabilidad e inequidad del mercado laboral latinoamericano exigen intervenciones que apunten al fortalecimiento de la empleabilidad y la equidad de género a través del desarrollo de autonomía y habilidades tanto individuales como colec ...

Habilidades y competencias para el sector informal en América Latina: Una revisión de la literatura sobre programas y metodologías de formación - Cinterfor Boletín 155
2002 - M. A. Gallart; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Habilidades y competencias para el sector informal en América Latina: Una revisión de la literatura sobre programas y metodologías de formación

Health care: an unreachable star for small-scale employees in developing countries: African Newsletter on Occupational Health and Safety
2003 - A. Kayumba, L.B. Mlingi; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. African Newsletter on Occupational Health and SafetyResumen disponible Article in the African Newsletter on Occupational Health and Safety: Informal sector including small-scale enterprises Volume 13, No. 1, April 2003,ILO/FINNIDA, Helsinki, Pages 7 - 10 ...

Health Impact of Occupational Risks in the Informal Sector in Zimbabwe.
1998 - R. H. Loewenson; Normas y Principios y Derechos Fundamentales en el Trabajo Attached documents: 1. Executive Summary; 2. Ch 4 - Issues and Conclusions; 3. Research Questionnaire (Appendix); 4. Ch 2 - Literature Review; 5. Ch 1 - Introduction; 6. Ch 5 - Future Surveys; 7. Ch 3 - Survey; 8. Ch 6 - BibliographyResumen disponible The report outlines information from the literature on the sector, the jobs and work environment problems it involves and documented information on occupational injury and illness. The review provides evidence that there is a significant level of reported ...

Health Insurance for Workers in the Informal Economy: Exploring the potential of micro-insurance schemes.
2000 - W. Van Ginneken Resumen disponible Paper from International conference on health system financing in low-income African and Asian countries. Clermont-Ferrand, 30 Nov. - 1 Dec. 2000. ...

Health micro-insurance: A compendium
2000 - STEP; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. Health micro-insurance: A compendiumResumen disponible This compendium provides key information on 130 health micro-insurance systems (HIMS) from 26 countries and 3 continents. Its aim is to serve as a facilitating tool for interested parties who would like to initiate contact with HIMS operators and develope ...

Health Protection for Informal Sector Workers: Recent health policy innovations in social security.
2001 - W. Van Ginneken

Higher Productivity and a Better Place to Work: Action manual
1988 - J.E. Thurman, K. Kogi and A.E. Louzine Attached documents: 1. Higher Productivity and a Better Place to Work: Action manualResumen disponible This manual shows how to take simple, effective, low-cost action which raises productivity while improving conditions at the workplace. Owners and managers of small and medium- sized enterprises will find useful ideas on key topics, such as the handling a ...

Higher Productivity and a Better Place to Work: Trainers' manual
1988 - J.E. Thurman, K. Kogi and A.E. Louzine; Protección Social Resumen disponible This manual explains how to organize and carry out training designed to improve productivity and working conditions in small and medium-sized enterprises. It is based on extensive field experience and careful analysis of the real needs of owners and manag ...

Historique d'une decennie d'appui au secteur informel du Mali
1994 - Silvestre E.; Sarr S. Resumen disponible Describes the implementation of the project, including the promotion of carpentry, construction and metalworking-related craftsmanship, from February 1982 to December 1992. ...

HIV Epidemic and other crisis response in sub-Saharan Africa
2002; Desmond Cohen; Empleo
     (from Poverty, Local Development and Decent Work Resources database)

HIV/AIDS + work : cooperación técnica : un medio para aplicar el Repertorio de recomendaciones prácticas de la OIT sobre el VIH/SIDA y el mundo del trabajo
2004 - Protección Social Attached documents: 1. HIV/AIDS + work : technical cooperation : A means to implement the ILO Code of Practice on HIV/AIDS and the world of workResumen disponible The ILO has established itself as a significant contributor to international efforts to prevent and mitigate the impact of HIV/ AIDS in the world of work. This document describes how technical cooperation is formulated and implemented to support these eff ...

El trabajo a domicilio en Argentina
1998-2001 - Elizabeth Jelin; Matilde Mercado; Gabriela Wyczykier; Regiones
Empleo Attached documents: 1. Home Work in Argentina; 2. El trabajo a domicilio en ArgentinaResumen disponible El estudio presenta un panorama de la situación del trabajo a domicilio en la Argentina contemporánea. Explora tanto los aspectos legales e institucionales como la situación de las poersonas que se ocupan en esa forma de empleo. En el ámbito del marco nor ...

Trabalho a domicilio: Novas formas de contratualidade
2001 - Lena Lavinas; Bila Sorj; Leila Linhares; Angela Jorge; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Home Work in Brazil: New Contractual Arrangements; 2. Trabalho a domicilio: Novas formas de contratualidadeResumen disponible El estudio analiza el trabajo a domicilio en el contexto de las transformaciones que vienen ocurriendo en la organización productiva, en Brasil como resultado de la mundialización de la economía. La investigación pone de manifiesto que esa forma de empleo ...

El trabajo a domicilio en Chile, un tema antiguo y actual: Resultados de una medición nacional
1998 - Henríquez, H.; Riquelme, V.; Gálvez T.; Selamé T.; Empleo Attached documents: 1. El trabajo a domicilio en Chile, un tema antiguo y actual: Resultados de una medición nacional; 2. Home Work in Chile: Past and Present Results of a National SurveyResumen disponible El estudio refiere los resultados de una investigación desarrollada por la Dirección del Trabajo de Chile (organismo de fiscalización del Ministerio del Trabajo), con la colaboración de la OIT, el Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas (INE) y el Servicio Nac ...

El trabajo a domicilio en países seleccionados de América Latina: una visión comparativa
1999-2000 - Manuela Tomei Attached documents: 1. El trabajo a domicilio en países seleccionados de América Latina: una visión comparativa; 2. Home Work in Selected Latin American Countries: A comparative viewResumen disponible El documento recoge los principales hallazgos de las investigaciones llevadas a cabo por la OIT en 5 países de América Latina, a saber Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Paraguay y Perú. El documento está dividido en tres capítulos. En el primero se esboza el cont ...

Home work in Thailand: Asian-Pacific newsletter on occupational health and safety
2003 - Chavalitnikikul, Chaiyuth; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. Asian-Pacific newsletter on occupational health and safetyResumen disponible Article examining working at home as a mode of informal employment as practiced in Thai society and the intervention of Thai government. Asian-Pacific newsletter on occupational health and safety: The Informal Sector - including small-scale enterprises ...

Trabajadores a domicilio en Paraguay
2000 - María Victoria Heikel Attached documents: 1. Homeworkers in Paraguy; 2. Trabajadores a domicilio en ParaguayResumen disponible El estudio constituye un primer esfuerzo por poner de relieve el tema del trabajo a domicilio en Paraguay, a fin de evaluar la importancia del fenómeno, indagar el interés de diferentes actores sociales o económicos y analizar la información disponible. D ...

Trabajodores a domicilio en el Perú
2000 - Francisco Verdera Attached documents: 1. Trabajadores a domicilio en el Perú; 2. Homeworkers in PeruResumen disponible El estudio constituye un esfuerzo por comprender la extensión y las características del trabajo a domicilio en el Perú, a partir del análisis de la literatura sobre el empleo en la pequeña y micro empresa, así como de algunos censos de población y de hoga ...

How to Prevent Accidents on Small Construction Sites
1992 - Zuiaa Ajali Katika Ujenzi, Illustrated by Rita Walle; Diálogo Social Attached documents: 1. How to Prevent Accidents on Small Construction Sites

How to work as an extension worker to organize workers in the informal economy
2005 - Diálogo Social Attached documents: 1. How to work as an extension worker to organize workers in the informal economy.Resumen disponible Describes the role of Syndicoop in strengthening trade union-cooperative collaboration. Gives advice on how to carry out project monitoring, and how to consider gender and child labour issues. Gives the workshop programme and proceedings, and appends gend ...

ICOH2003 in Iguassu Falls, Brazil: Asian-Pacific newsletter on occupational health and safety
2003 - Suvi Lehtinen; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. Asian-Pacific newsletter on occupational health and safetyResumen disponible Asian-Pacific newsletter on occupational health and safety: The Informal Sector - including small-scale enterprises ILO/FINNIDA. Vol. 10, no. 1 (March 2003), Helsinki, Page 23 ...

Una experiencia de turismo comunitario Ricancie
2003 - Protección Social Attached documents: 1. Ricancie an experience of community tourism; 2. Una experiencia de turismo comunitario RicancieResumen disponible Ricancie (Red Indígena del Alto Napo para la Convivencia Intercultural y Ecoturismo), una red de diez comunidades Quichua (con aproximadamente 2 700 personas) en el valle del Alto Napo, fue una pionera al establecer un innovador programa de turismo. Basad ...

IDEASS: The Local Economic Development Agency.
2003 - Protección Social Attached documents: 1. The Local Development Agency: IDEASS ; 2. Agências de Desenvolvimento Económico: IDEASSResumen disponible O IDEASS tem por objectivo fortalecer a eficácia dos processos de desenvolvimento local, através de uma utilização cada vez maior da inovação em matéria de desenvolvimento humano e trabalho decente. Actua como catalizador na difusão das inovações sociais, ...

Illegal labour migration and employment in Hungary
1999 - Judit Juhász; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. Illegal labour migration and employment in HungaryResumen disponible This study examines the immigration, employment and illegal work of foreign nationals in Hungary. Similar studies have been carried out on the situation of illegal migrant workers in the Czech Republic, Lithuania and the Russian Federation. The objecti ...

ILO and the financial sector: small financial mechanisms in support of poverty alleviation, enterprise promotion and self-reliant development
1991 Resumen disponible Conference report from the Technical Consultation on The ILO and the Financial Sector, (1991 : Geneva, Switzerland) Relating to; enterprise creation, self reliance, informal sector, credit, financing, role of ILO, developing countries - banking, small ...

ILO Code of Practice on HIV/AIDS - Manual
2002 - Protección Social Attached documents: 1. Guide to Manual - English; 2. Module 1 - English; 3. Module 7 - English; 4. Module 2 - French; 5. Module 3 - English; 6. Module 6 - French; 7. Module 6 - English; 8. Complete Manual - French; 9. Module 8 - English; 10. Module 2 - English; 11. References - French; 12. Module 1 - French; 13. References - English; 14. Module 4 - English; 15. Module 5 - French; 16. Module 8 - French; 17. Module 3 - French; 18. Guide to Manual - French; 19. Module 4 - French; 20. Module 5 - English; 21. Module 7 - French; 22. Complete Manual - EnglishResumen disponible This manual is a direct response to requests for technical assistance to implement the Code and develop workplace action. The manual is a training instrument which emphasizes practical activities and guidelines to help our constituents and other users ...

ILO Compendium of Official Statistics on Employment in the Informal Sector.
2002 - STAT; Departamento de Integración de Políticas

Impact of Micro-Finance on the Efficiency of Micro-Enterprises in Cape Coast
2001 - Vijay K. Bhasin; Wisdom Akpalu; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Impact of Micro-Finance on the Efficiency of Micro-Enterprises in Cape CoastResumen disponible It has been observed that the NBSSI has been performing very well as far as the training services are concerned. As far as the provision of credit is concerned, NBSSI has not performed well according to the expectations of hairdressers, dressmakers and wo ...

Impact of the Economic Crisis on Homeworkers in Thailand
2002 - Regiones Resumen disponible Describes the changing conditions and problems faced by homeworkers in two industries, the artificial flower and ready-made garment industries. Briefly reviews the early 1990s and then focuses on the years 1997-2001, which are the critical years of the fi ...

Improve your Working Environment and Business (I-WEB) for Micro and Small Entrepreneurs. Action Manual
IFP SEED, TRAVAIL; Empleo
     (from Poverty, Local Development and Decent Work Resources database)

Improvement of the apprenticeship system in the informal sector in Tanzania
1996 - Mwinuka JB.

Improvement of Working Conditions and Environment in the Informal Sector through Safety and Health Measures.
1999 - Valentina Forastieri; Normas y Principios y Derechos Fundamentales en el Trabajo Attached documents: 1. Improvement of working conditions and environment in the informal sector through safety and health measuresResumen disponible Inadequate safety and health standards and environmental hazards are particularly evident in the case of the informal sector. Informal sector workers do not have the necessary awareness, technical means and resources to implement health and safety measure ...

Improving Business through Better Working Conditions - Training for Micro and Small Entrepreneurs
2003; Marilou M. Calzado; Empleo
     (from Poverty, Local Development and Decent Work Resources database)

Improving Safety, Health and the Working Environment in the Informal Footwear Sector.
2002 - Pia Markkannen; Normas y Principios y Derechos Fundamentales en el Trabajo Resumen disponible Focuses on workplace hazards, preventive measures and day-to-day management practices relevant to informal shoe workshops. Presents practical low-cost and locally-identified measures to improve working conditions. ...

Improving Safety, Health and the Working Environment in the Informal Sector, PATRIS Operator's MANUAL.
1999 - ILO Resumen disponible This manual shows how to take simple, effective, and low-cost action which improves safety and health at the workplace and at the same time raises productivity. The training method encourages owners and operators to make concrete improvements at the shop- ...

Improving Safety, Health and the Working Environment in the Informal Sector, PATRIS TRAINER'S Guide.
1999 - ILO Resumen disponible This brief guide explains how to organise and carry outtraining designed to improve safety, health and working conditions in the informal sector workplaces by using the attached training materials. The training method is called PATRIS (Participatory Actio ...

Improving Working and Employment Conditions of Unprotected Workers (WISER): The next steps
Protección Social Resumen disponible Based on many experiences of ILO and other organizations around the world, the effectiveness of WISE and related approaches in provoking voluntary and practical action to improve working conditions of unprotected workers has been demonstrated. The next ch ...

Improving Working Conditions and Productivity in the Garment Industry: Action manual
1998 - Juan Carlos Hiba (ed.) Attached documents: 1. Improving Working Conditions and Productivity in the Garment Industry: Action manual.Resumen disponible If you own or manage a small or medium-sized enterprise producing garments, you are responsible for an important contribution to the national economy. People depend on you for jobs and for your products. The bulk of social and economic growth in most coun ...

Politicas de ingresos: iniciativas en materia de salarios, de precios y de tipo fiscal en los paises en desarrollo
1992 - Paukert F.; Robinson, D. Attached documents: 1. Extract on formal and informal employmentResumen disponible Most developing countries have experienced increasing difficulties, especially since the 1970s, in coping with rising prices, finding the right balance between efficiency and equity in wage policies, and achieving economic growth and better income distrib ...

Incorporación de la Dimensión de Género en las Políticas de Erradicación de la Pobreza y Generación de Empleo en América Latina
2003 - Valenzuela, María Elena (ed.); Regiones Resumen disponible En este libro 'Mujeres, Pobreza y Mercado de Trabajo. Argentina y Paraguay' realizado bajo la dirección de María Elena Valenzuela, se presentan tres estudios con los que esperamos contribuir, a través de nuevos conocimientos, a la generación de propuestas ...

Incorporating the informal sector into the macroeconomic information base: some definitions and conceptual issues
1996 - Bangasser PE. Resumen disponible Attempts to identify and classify informal sector economic units. Looks at the employment status of the informal workforce. ...

India : social protection for the unorganized sector
2000 - Ginneken, Wouter van; Protección Social Resumen disponible Reviews the existing social security schemes and makes suggestions for the improvement of social protection in three areas: the promotion of social insurance in the unorganized sector: social assistance for old-age, survivors, maternity and invalidity; an ...

La desigualdad en el trabajo en la economía informaI. Cuestiones esenciales y ejemplos - Revista internacional del trabajo, Vol. 122, no. 4
2003 - Harriss-White, Barbara Resumen disponible En muchos países, las leyes que prohíben la discriminación laboral sólo amparan a una pequeña minoría de los trabajadores porque se circunscriben a categorías demasiado sintéticas como el sexo o el color de la piel. En la práctica, la discriminación es mu ...

Seguridad económica informal y social en Africa subsahariana
2003 - Maes, An Resumen disponible Reports on the informal sector of the economies of sub-Saharan Africa and the types of social security provision that might cover persons involved in this sector. Available in French and Spanish. ...

Informal economy and workers in Nepal
2004 - Koirala, Govinda; Sharma, Shiva; Regiones Resumen disponible Provides an overview of the characteristics of Nepal's informal economy, particularly in terms of demographics, labour relations, and decent work deficits. Discusses a synopsis of the policy and legislative framework as well as trade union and employer in ...

Informal Economy Initiative - Mission on Knowledge Sharing in Geneva and Turin: October 20-31 2003
2003 - Ginette Forgues; Regiones Resumen disponible The mission had two main objectives: Acquiring knowledge and information on strategies, techniques, tools and approaches developed by ILO units with regard to their work with the informal economy. Attending a knowledge sharing meeting between the fi ...

Informal Economy Photos

Informal Economy, Poverty and Employment (PPP)
2003-2006 - Regiones Attached documents: 1. F401808318/Annex A.doc; 2. F1971910969/Informal Economy final report - with cover sheet.pdf; 3. F621504540/Annex B.docResumen disponible A progress review of the first eighteen months is available. The report describes the work accomplished and how partnerships advanced. The project realized replication, a recognizable impact, adoption of new approaches, and strategies to address tougher ...

Informal Economy, Undeclared Work and Labour Administration
2005 - José Luis Daza; Diálogo Social

Informal Employment in Latin America: Movements over business cycles and the effects of worker rights.
2003 - Rossana Galli and David Kucera Attached documents: 1. Informal employment in Latin America: Movements over business cycles and the effects of worker rightsResumen disponible This paper addresses three central issues in the debates on informal employment: trends in informalization, informal employment as a macroeconomic buffer over business cycles, and the effects of higher labour standards and stronger de facto worker rights ...

Informal finance : exploitation or empowerment?
2002 - Balkenhol, Bernd; Diálogo Social Attached documents: 1. Educación Obrera 2002/2 Número 127; 2. Labour Education 2002/2 No. 127Resumen disponible Discusses the ILO's role in promoting access to credit for the working poor. Educación Obrera 2002/2 Número 127, 49-52 Labour Education 2002/2 No. 127, 48-51 Article not available in Education ouvrière 2002/2 Numéro 127 ...

Informal Finance in the Informal Economy: Promoting decent work among the working poor.
2002 - Michael Aliber; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Informal Finance in the Informal Economy: Promoting Decent Work among the Working PoorResumen disponible Michael Aliber's report presented here is based on two empirical surveys, one carried out in India and the other in Uganda. The findings suggest the existence of substantial demand-led innovations in credit and savings mechanisms in the informal economy, ...

Informal Labour in the Construction Industry in Kenya: A case study of Nairobi
2003 - Winnie V. Mitullah and Isabella Njeri Wachira; Diálogo Social Attached documents: 1. Informal labour in the construction industry in KenyaResumen disponible When examining the construction industry the focus has been on enterprises as little attention has been paid to the labour force, about which often very little is known. This paper makes a start in redressing this imbalance. It presents the findings of ...

Informal Labour in the Construction Industry in Nepal
2002 - Kishore k. Jha; Diálogo Social Attached documents: 1. Informal Labour in the Construction Industry in NepalResumen disponible The development of an efficient construction industry is an objective of policy in most countries. However, the focus of research and technical assistance to date has largely been upon the enterprises that comprise the sector - contractors, subcontractor ...

Informal Micro-Finance Schemes: The case of funeral insurance in South Africa
2001 - Roth, Jimmy; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Informal Micro-Finance Schemes: The case of funeral insurance in South AfricaResumen disponible Funerals are a major life-cycle expense for poor South African households as in other parts of the world. In the Grahamstown township, the study site of this paper, located in the poorest province of South Africa, households sampled spent approximately 15 ...

Informal Sector - including small scale enterprises: African Newsletter on Occupational Health and Safety
2003 - Protección Social Attached documents: 1. African Newsletter on Occupational Health and SafetyResumen disponible African Newsletter on Occupational Health and Safety: Informal sector including small-scale enterprises Volume 13, No. 1, April 2003,ILO/FINNIDA, Helsinki ...

Informal sector : the ILO in Asia and the Pacific
1998 - Regiones Resumen disponible Briefly describes the informal sector in Asia and the role of ILO in promoting its development and improving the working conditions therein. ...

Informal sector and informal employment : elements of a conceptual framework : Fifth Meeting of the Expert Group on Informal Sector Statistics (Delhi Group)
2001 - Hussmanns, Ralf. Attached documents: 1. Informal sector and informal employment: elements of a conceptual framework: Fifth Meeting of the Expert Group on Informal Sector Statistics (Delhi Group).Resumen disponible Presented at the Fifth Meeting of the Expert Group on Informal Sector Statistics (Delhi Group)this paper proposes a framework that would make it possible to complement statistical measures of the informal sector with measures of informal employment. Prefe ...

Informal Sector in Asia from the Decent Work Perspective.
2002 - A. T. M. Nural Amin; Empleo Attached documents: 1. The Informal Sector in AsiaResumen disponible The present paper attempts to throw light on recent trends and statistics regarding the magnitude and growth of the informal economy in the developing, middle level and more advanced countries of Asia. The differential impact of the Asian financial crisis ...

Formación en el sector informal en Jamaica: una evaluación - Cinterfor Boletín 155
2003 - Andrea M. Miller-Stennett; Regiones Attached documents: 1. Formación en el sector informal en Jamaica: una evaluaciónResumen disponible Describir las principales políticas y modelos jamaiquinos para desarrollar calificaciones en el sector informal y reflexionar sobre los factores que condicionan la replicación y éxito de las propuestas son los objetivos centrales de este análisis, que foc ...

Informal Sector Training in Jamaica: An assessment.
2002 - Andrea M. Miller-Stennett; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Informal Sector Training in Jamaica: An assessmentResumen disponible This paper reviews current policies and programmes that concern skills training for informal sector workers in Jamaica, and draws from them lessons that may be pertinent for the design and implementation of future policies and programmes. While there is n ...

Informal sector: legalization or laisser-faire? International Labour Review, Vol. 134, No. 6 1995
1995 - Carlos Maldonado Resumen disponible The paper presents 5 hypothesis relevant to understanding the non formalization of enterprises: the structural handicap, inadequate institutional framework, lack of information and negative perception of laws, variable thresholds of compliance with the la ...

Economía solidaria, sí; explotación, no
2002 - Debroux, Mathieu; Diálogo Social Attached documents: 1. Educación Obrera 2002/2 Número 127; 2. Education ouvrière 2002/2 Numéro 127; 3. Labour Education 2002/2 No. 127Resumen disponible Educación Obrera 2002/2 Número 127, p20-23 Education ouvrière 2002/2 Numéro 127, p19-22 Labour Education 2002/2 No. 127, p20-23 ...

Sector informal urbano en America latina
P.R. Souza; V.E.Tokman Resumen disponible The article comprises a conference paper on the informal sector (incl. The self employed) of the urban labour market in Latin America - includes references and statistical tables. Conference held in La Plata 1975 March 5 to 8. ...

Trabajo informal: del concepto a la acción
2002 - Nathan, Christine; Diálogo Social Attached documents: 1. Educación Obrera 2002/2 Número 127; 2. Labour Education 2002/2 No. 127Resumen disponible Argues that the ILO should abandon its policies and activities based on an acceptance of

Informalidad y exclusión social
2000 - Carpio, Jorge; Klein, Emilio; Novacovsky, Irene; Serrano, Gerardo M;; Regiones Resumen disponible Comprises a collection of articles on social exclusion and the informal sector. Los artículos de este libro son el resultado del Programa de Investigaciones desarrollado en el marco del Foro de Informalidad y Exclusión Social organizado por el Sistema ...

Informalization in Advanced Market Economies
1997 - Saskia Sassen; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Informalization in Advanced Market EconomiesResumen disponible This paper focuses on the informal economy in the United States, and largely in New York City. It paints the picture not of a marginalized and excluded sector, but rather a dynamic sector, with informal economic relations which are closely linked to the f ...

Information, training and education in occupational health and safety: Asian-Pacific newsletter on occupational health and safety
2003 - Suvi Lehtinen; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. Asian-Pacific newsletter on occupational health and safetyResumen disponible Asian-Pacific newsletter on occupational health and safety: The Informal Sector - including small-scale enterprises ILO/FINNIDA. Vol. 10, no. 1 (March 2003), Helsinki, Pages 11 - 12 ...

Infrastructure development and the informal sector in the Philippines
2002 - Yu, Sandra O; Diálogo Social Attached documents: 1. Infrastructure development and the informal sector in the PhilippinesResumen disponible Examines the role of infrastructure development in improving productivity and working conditions in informal sector enterprises in the Philippines. ...

Initiatives Aimed at the Promotion of Quality Jobs and the Improvement of Productivity in the Informal Sector: A case study from Senegal.
2002 - Youssoufa Wade; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Initiatives permettant de promouvoir des emplois de qualité et d'améliorer la productivité dans le secteur informel: Une étude de cas au SénégalResumen disponible La présente étude montre comment les partenaires sociaux peuvent jouer un rôle d'interaction et fournir des services ppropriés aux travailleurs et aux micro-entrepreneurs de l'èconomie informelle. Sa publication répond au besoin exprimé par la Conférence ...

Innovative experience in promoting informal sector self-employment in Asia - Arpla labour administration bulletin (Bangkok) (3),(1988,)
1988 - Regiones Resumen disponible Self employment, urban area informal sector, Asia - small enterprises, state aid and nongovernmental organization aid programmes, training programmes. Diagrams. ...

Insecurities of Informal Workers in Gujarat, India.
2002 - Jeemol Unni, Uma Rani; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. Insecurities of Informal Workers in Gujarat, IndiaResumen disponible Based on a People's Security Survey (PSS) carried out in urban and rural areas around Ahmedabad city in 2000. The key purposes of the survey were to measure insecurity; to identify sources of insecurity; and to search for what poor people in the informal ...

Insurance products provided by insurance companies to the disadvantaged groups in India
2005 - STEP; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. Insurance products provided by insurance companies to the disadvantaged groups in IndiaResumen disponible Documents characteristics of products, offered by private or public companies to address the social protection needs of the poor and excluded groups. Covers accident, health and life insurance as well as provisions regarding loss of income and educational ...

Integrated Insurance Scheme of the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA).
2001 - ILO Attached documents: 1. The Self-employed Women's Association's Integrated Insurance Scheme, India (402kb) (delete this file)Resumen disponible Examines the stages in the development of the SEWA's Integrated Insurance Scheme, the role of the main parties involved and the structure of the benefit package and premiums. Provides information on the financial aspects of the scheme. Includes general in ...

Inter-Agency Information Exchange - BDS website
Empleo Resumen disponible This website is dedicated to an exchange of information to promote BDS as one of the key elements in strategies to ensure pro-poor growth and to secure quality jobs. You will find here many studies and reports that you won't find anywhere else. Some of ...

International Follow-up Meeting on Local OH&S Profiles and Indicators: African Newsletter on Occupational Health and Safety
2003 - M. Mattila; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. African Newsletter on Occupational Health and SafetyResumen disponible African Newsletter on Occupational Health and Safety: Informal sector including small-scale enterprises Volume 13, No. 1, April 2003,ILO/FINNIDA, Helsinki, Pages 25 - 27 ...

International Labour Standards and the Informal Sector: Developments and Dilemmas.
2002 - Charlotta Schlyter; Empleo Attached documents: 1. International Labour Standards and the Informal Sector: Developments and DilemmasResumen disponible The present study attempts to explore how the informal sector should be approached in the light of the mandate of the ILO. It considers general issues in relation to international labour standards and the informal sector. The paper also provides a thoroug ...

International migration of health workers: Labour and social issues
2003-2003 - Bach, Stephen Dr.; Diálogo Social Attached documents: 1. F1446916231/wp209.pdf

International Occupational Safety and Health Programme on the Informal Sector
1998 - William D. Salter; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. International OSH Programme on the Informal Sector

Programa Internacional para la Pequeña Empresa : campo de acción y equipo técnico, registro, metodologías y [sic] instrumentos
1998 - Empleo Resumen disponible Annotated list of the most successful ILO projects aimed at improving the economic perfomance of micro and small enterprises in both the formal and the informal sectors. ...

Coloquio internacional sobre los sindicatos y el sector no estructurado
1999-2000 - ILO; Diálogo Social Attached documents: 1. Conclusions and reccomendations; 2. Rapport du Colloque; 3. Report on Symposium; 4. Informe del Coloquio; 5. Conclusiones y recomendaciones; 6. Conclusions et reccomendationsResumen disponible Informe, conclusiones y recomendaciones del Coloquio internacional sobre los sindicatos y el sector no estructurado, Ginebra, 18-22 de octubre de 1999 (GB document 277/STM/5, March 2000) ...

International Symposium on Youth and Work: African Newsletter on Occupational Health and Safety
2003 - T. Pääkkönen; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. African Newsletter on Occupational Health and SafetyResumen disponible African Newsletter on Occupational Health and Safety: Informal sector including small-scale enterprises Volume 13, No. 1, April 2003,ILO/FINNIDA, Helsinki, Page 27 ...

Introduction to Microfinance in Conflict-Affected Countries
2002; Caroline Tsilikounas, Dave Larson, Geetha Nagarajan, Judith van Doorn, Mayada El-Zoghbi, Myriam Houtart, Patience Alidri; Empleo
     (from Poverty, Local Development and Decent Work Resources database)

Introduction to Working Conditions and Environment
1989 - Editor: Clerc, J.-M.; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. Extract on informal sectorResumen disponible Introductory guide to working conditions and the work environment - covers occupational safety, occupational health, hours of work, wages, work organization, job content, welfare facilities, etc.; discusses ways of improving conditions, partic. In the rur ...

Introduccion a las condiciones y el medio ambiente de trabajo
1991 - Editor: Clerc, J.-M.; Protección Social Resumen disponible Introductory guide to working conditions and the work environment - covers occupational safety, occupational health, hours of work, wages, work organization, job content, welfare facilities, etc.; discusses ways of improving conditions, partic. In the rur ...

Inventory of Micro-Insurance Schemes in the Philippines
2005 - Protección Social Attached documents: 1. Inventory of Micro-Insurance Schemes in the Philippines.Resumen disponible The Inventory aims at identifying the main community-based micro-insurance schemes currently operating in the Philippines. The study seeks to identify and provide basic documentation on these schemes in various sectors, including: (i) health care, (ii) li ...

Job Creation in Urban Informal Sector: Issues and policy options.
2001 - Ed. A. S. Oberai and G. K. Chadha; Empleo Resumen disponible This publication puts together revised and edited versions of 15 papers presented at a national workshop on 'Job Creation and the Urban Informal Sector in India'. It also includes an overview of the inaugaral session of the workshop. The publication, whil ...

Jobs, Gender and Small Enterprises - a Study on Women's Enterprise Development
Gerry Finnegan, Pat Richardson, Rhona Howarth; Empleo
     (from Poverty, Local Development and Decent Work Resources database)

Jobs, Gender and Small Enterprises in Africa: Women Entrepreneurs in Ethiopia.
2002 - Zewde and Associates; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Jobs, Gender and Small Enterprises in Africa: Women Entrepreneurs in Ethiopia

Jobs, Gender and Small Enterprises in Africa: Women Entrepreneurs in Tanzania.
2002 - University of Dar es Salaam Entrepreneurship Centre (UDEC); Empleo Attached documents: 1. Jobs, Gender and Small Enterprises in Africa: Women Entrepreneurs in Tanzania

Jobs, Gender and Small Enterprises in Africa: Women Entrepreneurs in Zambia.
2002 - JUDAI and Associates; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Jobs, Gender and Small Enterprises in Africa: Women Entrepreneurs in Zambia

Key Indicators of the Labour Market (KILM).
Empleo

Knowledge Fair on Decent Work and the Informal Economy - NEWSLETTER.
2005 Resumen disponible In connection with the

L'economie informelle en Afrique francophone : structure, dynamiques et politiques
2001 - Maldonado, C.; Gaufryau, B.

La immigración irregular subsahariana a través y hacia Marruecos
2000 - Barros, Lucile; Lahlou, Mehdi; Escoffier, Claire; Pumares, Pablo; Ruspini, Paolo; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. La immigración irregular subsahariana a través y hacia Marruecos; 2. L'immigration irregulière subsaharienne à travers et vers le MarocResumen disponible Examines the scope of irregular migration from subsaharan countries into or via Morocco. Focuses on frontier control, role of the Schengen agreement on the free movement of persons, migration policy measures taken by Italy and Spain, work permits granted ...

La microempresa en América Central la experiencia de PROMICRO-OIT: 1991-1998
1999 - PROMICRO/OIT; Regiones

La microempresa en El Salvador : magnitud, importancia y características a finales de los años noventa
2001 - Trejos Solórzano, Juan Diego; Regiones Resumen disponible Analyses trends in employment in microenterprises in the informal sector, focusing on self-employed workers. ...

La microempresa en Guatemala en la década de 1990
2000 - Trejos Solórzano, Juan Diego.; Regiones Resumen disponible Analyses trends in employment in microenterprises in the informal sector, focusing on own account workers and subsistence activities. ...

La microempresa en Nicaragua en la década de los noventa
2001 - Trejos Solórzano, Juan Diego; Regiones Resumen disponible Analyses trends in employment in micro and small enterprises in the informal economy. Identifies distinct segments of the labour market according to productivity levels. ...

La microempresa en Panamá : importancia, características y evolución durante los años 90
2000 - Trejos Solórzano, Juan Diego; Regiones

La microempresa no agrícola en Honduras : evolución, importancia y características a finales de los años noventa
2002 - Trejos Solórzano, Juan Diego; Regiones Resumen disponible Analyses trends in employment in small and microenterprises in the informal sector, focusing on low productivity sectors and subsistence activities. ...

La modernización del sector informal y las cargas tributarias y administrativas a las empresasen el Perú
1999 - Adrián F. Revilla Vergara; Regiones Attached documents: 1. La modernización del sector informal y las cargas tributarias y administrativas a las empresasen el PerúResumen disponible En el primer capítulo sobre la carga administrativa el autor revisa y evalúa la legislación que rige en el Perú desde 1989, año en que se aprobó por unanimidad en el Congreso

La mujer microempresaria en Honduras
2002 - Trejos Solórzano, Juan Diego; Regiones Resumen disponible Analyses the situation of female entrepreneurs in the informal economy during the 1990s. Focuses on women's participation in low productivity sectors and subsistence activities. ...

La mujer microempresaria en Nicaragua : situación y características hacia finales de los años noventa
2001 - Trejos Solórzano, Juan Diego; Regiones Resumen disponible Analyses the situation of female entrepreneurs in the informal economy. Focuses on women's participation in low productivity sectors and subsistence activities. ...

La participación de la mujer en la economía informal. En: Economia Informal y Desarrollo Local. Noticias Delnet N° 32 - Octubre / Noviembre 2003
2003 Attached documents: 1. La participación de la mujer en la economía informal. En: Economia Informal y Desarrollo Local. Noticias Delnet N° 32 - Octubre / Noviembre 2003

La situación de los trabajadores y trabajadoras de la economía informal en el Cono Sur y la Zona Andina : Informe final (del Proyekto: Los Sindicatos y el Trabajo Decente en la Era de la Globalización en América Latina)
2003 - A. Orsatti; R. Calle; Regiones Attached documents: 1. La situación de los trabajadores y trabajadoras de la economía informal en la Zona Andina y el Cono Sur: Informe final - parte I ; 2. La situación de los trabajadores y trabajadoras de la economía informal en la Zona Andina y el Cono Sur: Informe final - parte IIResumen disponible Este informe es la síntesis de dos estudios subregionales realizados en el marco del Proyecto ACTRAV-OIT Los Sindicatos y el Trabajo Decente en la Era de la Globalización en América Latina, con la denominación 'La Situación de los Trabajadores/as Informal ...

Labour Markets in Transition: Balancing flexibility and security in Central and Eastern Europe
2003 - Sandrine Cazes; Alena Nesporova; Regiones Resumen disponible The economic and structural changes in the transition countries since the break up of the Soviet Union have been unique and profound. This book explores how the labour markets of the Central and Eastern European transition countries, the Baltic States and ...

Labour Standards and Informal Employment in Latin America.
2003 - R. Galli and D. Kucera Attached documents: 1. Labour Standards and Informal Employment in Latin AmericaResumen disponible This paper addresses the hypothesis that higher labour standards - in particular freedom of association and collective bargaining rights - and higher wages in hte formal sector reduce employment in that sector and thereby contribute to the informalization ...

Las organizaciones gremiales del sector informal urbano
1998 - M. L. Alves Maia; R. Arbulú; E. Chávez; G. Huertas; F. Torche.; Regiones

Las organizaciones sindicales y el sector informal: reflexiones para la formacion y la accion
2000 - Hurtado, Montserrat; Regiones

Le secteur informel en Afrique face aux contraintes légales et institutionnelles
1999 - Carlos Maldonado; Empleo

Le travail des enfants au Senegal
1996 - Normas y Principios y Derechos Fundamentales en el Trabajo
Regiones

Learning from Experience: A gendered approach to social protection for workers in the informal economy
2000; Francis Lund, Smita Srinivas; Protección Social
     (from Poverty, Local Development and Decent Work Resources database)

Leasing for Small and Micro Enterprises
2003; Linda Deelen, Louis Othieno, Mauricio Dupleich, Oliver Wakelin; Empleo
     (from Poverty, Local Development and Decent Work Resources database)

Legal and illegal labour migration in the Czech Republic: Background and current trends
2000 - Milada Horáková; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. Legal and illegal labour migration in the Czech Republic: Background and current trendsResumen disponible This study examines the issue of migration in the Czech Republic, both from a historical perspective, and from the point of view of current trends. Similar studies have been undertaken on the situation in Hungary, Lithuania and the Russian Federation. ...

Legal Constraints to Women's Participation in Cooperatives: Country studies from; Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ecuador, India, Lesotho, Morocco, the Philippines, Tanzania, Thailand and Uruguay.
2002 - Ed. Anne-Brit Nippierd and Christina Holmgren; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Legal Constraints to Women's Participation in CooperativesResumen disponible This volume includes ten case studies from different parts of the world that examine, in national cooperative legislation and other related legislation, the legal constraints and barriers that women face in participating in cooperative enterprises. Certai ...

Linkages Between Infrastructure Development and Improved Productivity and Working Conditions in Informal Sector Enterprises.
1998 - Muteta, Ginette; Ngoi, Gideon K; Sheuya, Shaaban. Attached documents: 1. Linkages Between Infrastructure Development and Improved Productivity and Working Conditions in Informal Sector EnterprisesResumen disponible The main purpose of this paper is to explore and illustrate the existing relationship between infrastructure upgrading programmes and improved productivity and working conditions in informal sector enterprises. The paper is based on qualitative or sem ...

Los enlaces entre las empresas en Kenia et el Jua Kali (la economía informal)
2005 - Diálogo Social

Linkages between the formal and the informal sectors in developing countries: a review of literature
1990 - Harriss JC. Resumen disponible During the 1970s and early 1980s the ILO carried out a number of studies on the informal sector in large urban centres of developing countries, including Accra, Lome, Yaounde, Dakar and Kaolack. These studies failed to elaborate on the nature and extent o ...

Local Employment in the Informal Economy. Course Guide for staff in local governments and partnership organizations
2001; Adrian Atkinson, IFP SEED; Empleo
     (from Poverty, Local Development and Decent Work Resources database)

Local Partnership Building on Urban Employment Promotion through MSE Development.
2002 - IFP/SEED; Employment Sector; Empleo

Macroeconomic reforms and a labour policy framework for India
2004 - Jayati Ghosh; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Macroeconomic reforms and a labour policy framework for IndiaResumen disponible This paper is concerned with the interaction of macroeconomic and labour market policies, in the specific context of India. The argument is made that employment- intensive growth is a prerequisite for ensuring decent work for all. By contrast, the Indian ...

Making Guarantee Funds Work for Small and Micro Enterprises
2000; Gabriel Reyes, James Roth, Peter van Rooij, Sarah Gray, Thierry Mahieux; Empleo
     (from Poverty, Local Development and Decent Work Resources database)

Making Insurance Work for Microfinance Institutions A Technical Guide to Developing and Delivering Microinsurance
2003; Craig F. Churchill, Dominic Liber, James Roth, Michael J. McCord; Empleo
     (from Poverty, Local Development and Decent Work Resources database)

Management Guide for Promoting and Strengthening Member-based Small Business Associations
IFP SEED; Empleo
     (from Poverty, Local Development and Decent Work Resources database)

Managing Construction Projects - A Guide to Processes and Procedures
1984 - Austen, A. D.; Neale, R. H. Attached documents: 1. Extract on informal communicationResumen disponible This Guide describes the processes and procedures of construction project management, with emphasis on their use in developing countries. Good project management is essential because of the importance of capital projects to the development of a young nati ...

Manuel methodologique : pour mener des enquetes auprès des unités économiques informelles
1998 - Carlos Maldonado; Empleo Resumen disponible Le présent manuel fait partie d'une série de travaux à caractère méthodologique et conceptuel entreprise par le BIT en vue d'améliorer les systèmes nationaux de statistiques relatifs à l'emploi, aux entreprises et aux resources humaines qu'elles mobilisen ...

Sindicatos y el reto de la mundializacion
1998 - Robert Kyloh; Diálogo Social Attached documents: 1. Mastering the challenge of globalization : towards a trade union agendaResumen disponible Comprises two articles dealing with several aspects of the international trade union agenda which are being developed in response to the challenge of globalization. Explains and elaborates policies and position papers adopted by various international trad ...

MATCOM Cooperative Management Training
ILO MATCOM Programme; Empleo
     (from Poverty, Local Development and Decent Work Resources database)

Medicion del empleo en el sector no estructurado del Pakistan: ensayo de una nueva metodologia - Revista internacional del trabajo (Ginebra) 114,(1),(1995,), p.21-42.
1995 - Bekkers, Hans; Stoffers, Wim. Resumen disponible Full text/table of contents on ProQuest Access limited to ILO Geneva-based staff. International Labour Review only available online from 1999 onwards. ...

Measuring the informal economy: From employment in the informal sector to informal employment
2004 - Ralf Hussmanns Attached documents: 1. Measuring the informal economy: From employment in the informal sector to informal employmentResumen disponible The development of statistics on the informal economy helps to improve labour statistics and national accounts. The informal economy plays an important role for employment creation, income generation and poverty reduction in many countries, especially dev ...

Measuring the Non-Observed Economy - A Handbook.
2002 - ILO; Departamento de Integración de Políticas Attached documents: 1. Measuring the Non-Observed Economy: Long abstract; 2. Measuring the Non-Observed Economy - A HandbookResumen disponible The long abstract above includes the scope and objectives as well as a user guide for the handbook, it is 10 pages long. The main focus of the Handbook is to provide guidance on how to produce exhaustive estimates of GDP. This means ensuring that as ma ...

Methodological guide for undertaking case studies: Health micro-insurance schemes
2000 - STEP; PAHO; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. Methodological guide for undertaking case studiesResumen disponible This methodological Guide aims to provide a description of the systems studied and an appreciation of their manner of operation. It does not seek to evaluate the systems, neither in terms of impact, nor in terms of efficiency of the health sector. The Gu ...

Micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in Thailand: definitions and contributions
Maurice Allal; Regiones
     (from Poverty, Local Development and Decent Work Resources database)

Micro and Small Enterprises in Thailand: Definitions and Contributions
1999 - Allal, Maurice; Editor: Finnegan, Gerry; Regiones Attached documents: 1. Micro and Small Enterprises in Thailand: Definitions and ContributionsResumen disponible Reviews the current classification of enterprises in Thailand and describes how it can be improved. Briefly describes the informal sector. Briefly discusses the contribution of the informal sector and small enterprises to economic development. Includes in ...

Micro Health Insurance Scheme of BRAC: A case study
2004 - Cross Sectoral Resumen disponible This report is based on a field study and attempts to describe the main features of an ILO-WEEH supported community-based Health Micro Insurance scheme piloted by BRAC. The aim being to provide basic social protection, in the area of health services, for ...

Micro-assurance santé: Guide d'introduction aux mutuelles de santé en Afrique
2001 - STEP; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. Micro-assurance santé: Guide d'introduction aux mutuelles de santé en AfriqueResumen disponible Ce guide est destiné à tous les promoteurs potentiels de mutuelles de santé et capitalise des expériences en matière d'information et de sensibilisation développées en Afrique. Il a été élaboré pour répondre à un souhait de simplification et de visualisat ...

Micro-finance and the Empowerment of Women: A review of the key issues
2000 - Linda Mayoux; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Micro-finance and the empowerment of womenResumen disponible There are four basic views on the link between micro-finance and women's empowerment: - there are those who stress the positive evidence and are essentially optimistic about the possibility of sustainable micro-finance programmes world-wide empowering wo ...

Micro-Insurance: Extending health insurance to the excluded
STEP; ISSA; David Dror; Christian Jacquier; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. Micro-Insurance: Extending health insurance to the excluded; 2. Micro-assurance: élargissement de l'assurance maladie aux exclusResumen disponible This paper proposes a way to improve health provision for populations who are usually excluded from access to health services. It starts out from a short description of who the excluded are, and what they are excluded from. The paper then looks at the maj ...

Micro-Insurers Inventory of Micro Insurance Schemes in Bangladesh
2004 - Cross Sectoral Attached documents: 1. Micro-Insurers Inventory of Micro Insurance Schemes in Bangladesh.Resumen disponible This report provides information on micro insurance schemes available to the income-poor and low-income earners. The study found that the evolution of the micro insurance concept stems from the development of widespread implementation of microcredit model ...

Microempresa y seguridad social en Costa Rica y El Salvador
1998 - STEP; PROMICRO; PACTEM; Protección Social Resumen disponible Discusses proposals for the extension of formal sector social security schemes to microenterprises in both countries. ...

Microenterprise development through policy reform in Tanzania : progress and final report, January-July 1996 : Government of Tanzania/ILO/The Netherlands Advisory Project
1996

Microfinance in conflict-affected communities - A training manual
2003 - Patience Alidri, Judith van Doorn, Mayada El-Zoghbi, Myriam Houtart, Dave Larson, Geetha Nagarajan, Caroline Tsilikounas; Empleo Resumen disponible The ILO's Social Finance Programme and UNHCR's Reintegration and Local Settlements Section have developed a training manual on 'Microfinance in Conflict-Affected Communities'. It covers design, implementation, evaluation and coordination issues, and is ge ...

Microinsurance in Burkina Faso
2002 - Michael Aliber; Alitou Ido; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Microinsurance in Burkina FasoResumen disponible This paper presents findings of fieldwork in Burkina Faso on life, health and cattle insurance. The findings suggest that even in a country as poor as Burkina Faso, microinsurance schemes can flourish. The research finds that simpler forms of insurance ca ...

Migrant Worker Remittances, Micro-finance and the Informal Economy: Prospects and Issues
1999 - Shivani Puri; Tineke Ritzema; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Migrant Worker Remittances, Micro-finance and the Informal Economy: Prospects and IssuesResumen disponible The conventional approach to analysing the impact of remittances on the domestic economies of labour-sending countries focuses exclusively on officially recorded flows and their effects on the various economic aggregates in the formal economy. While it is ...

Migrants involvement in irregular employment in the Mediterranean countries of the European Union.
2001 - Reynery, Emilio; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. Migrants involvement in irregular employment in the Mediterranean countries of the European Union.Resumen disponible Examines the integration of foreign workers in the regular and underground labour markets of the Mediterranean countries of the European Union. Reviews the countries' attempts to regularize the status of

Modernización del Sector Informal y las Cargas Tributarias y Administrativas a las Empresas en el Perú.
1999 - Adrián F. Revilla Vergara Attached documents: 1. Modernización del Sector InformalResumen disponible Analyses the administrative and fiscal costs affecting Peruvian enterprises and identifies unnecessary costs which once eliminated would facilitate their integration into the formal sector. ...

Modular Package on Gender Poverty and Employment
2000; Integration; Departamento de Integración de Políticas
     (from Poverty, Local Development and Decent Work Resources database)

Module Introduction à la gestion des terroirs
1996; BIT-ACOPAM; Empleo
     (from Poverty, Local Development and Decent Work Resources database)

Module Organisation villageoise en gestion des terroirs
1997; BIT-ACOPAM; Empleo
     (from Poverty, Local Development and Decent Work Resources database)

Module Photo-interprétation et cartographie en gestion des terroirs
1996; BIT-ACOPAM; Empleo
     (from Poverty, Local Development and Decent Work Resources database)

Monitoring Guidelines for Semi-Formal Financial Institutions Active in Small Enterprise Finance.
1996 - B. Wesselink; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Monitoring Guidelines for Semi-Formal Financial Institutions Active in Small Enterprise FinanceResumen disponible Deals with unregulated but legal financial entities operating in the semi-formal financial sector, essentially membership-based self-help organizations and outside assistance-based nongovernmental organizations. Provides a framework of questions and indic ...

More and Better Jobs for Women: An action guide.
1996 - Lin Lean Lim; Empleo Resumen disponible This guide to policy and programme options is an ILO contribution to the successful implementation of the work initiated by two milestone conferences in 1995 - the Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing) and the World Summit on Social Development (Cope ...

Mutual Guarantee Associations: What they are and how they work
2003 - Dino Barranu, Roberto Campaniello, Sabrina de Gobbi, Paolo Nardelli, Giuseppe Vivace; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Les sociétés de cautionnement mutuel: Leur nature et leur fonctionnement ; 2. Mutual Guarantee Associations: What they are and how they work

Mutual health organizations and micro-entrepreneurs' associations. Guide
2001; SEED : STEP; Protección Social
Empleo
     (from Poverty, Local Development and Decent Work Resources database)

Mutuelles de santé en Afrique: caractéristiques et mise en place : manuel de formateurs
World Solidarity. Alliance nationale des mutualités chrétiennes de Belgique, ILO-STEP; Protección Social
     (from Poverty, Local Development and Decent Work Resources database)

Méthodes et instruments d'appui au secteur informel en Afrique francophone
2004 - Maldonado, Carlos; Badiane; Cheikh; Miélot, Anne-Lise; Empleo Resumen disponible Ce document est consacré à l'examen des expériences menées par le BIT en Afrique francophone, en matière de promotion des activités économiques informelles. Lancé dans le courant des années 80, le programme d'appui aux petits producteurs urbains dont ce d ...

National Conference on the Informal Economy and SME Development in Mongolia: Ulaanbaatar, 5-6 November 2002
2002 Attached documents: 1. Agenda; 2. Summarized notesResumen disponible The objective of the conference is to develop an appropriate national policy on the development of the informal economy, identify practical measures to support the national policy, establish institutional frameworks to implement these practical measures, ...

National Meeting on Organising the Unorganised: Problems and Strategies
2005 - Regiones
Diálogo Social

New Challenges and Opportunities for the Informal Sector: A seminar on the informal sector in Metro-Manila.
1996 - ILO

New Forms of Labour Administration: Actors in Development
2002 - Edited by Lécuyer, Normand; General Editor: Courdouan, Jean.; Diálogo Social Attached documents: 1. Social security/informal sector: The case of Senegal ; 2. Labour administration and the informal sector: The importance of the Informal Sector Support Fund (FASI): The case of Burkina Faso ; 3. Programme for the Promotion of Self-employment and Micro-enterprises (PRODAME): The case of PeruResumen disponible Far-reaching and rapid changes in the world of labour and employment are taking place in countries the world over, changes that constitute significant challenges for labour administrations. What are the latter doing in order to take these changes on board ...

New measures for occupational safety and health for small-scale enterprises in Japan: Asian-Pacific newsletter on occupational health and safety
2003 - Takashi Muto; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. Asian-Pacific newsletter on occupational health and safetyResumen disponible Asian-Pacific newsletter on occupational health and safety: The Informal Sector - including small-scale enterprises ILO/FINNIDA. Vol. 10, no. 1 (March 2003), Helsinki, Pages 17 - 20 ...

Occupational exposure to pesticides in flower farms in northern Tanzania: African Newsletter on Occupational Health and Safety
2003 - A.V.F. Ngowi; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. African Newsletter on Occupational Health and SafetyResumen disponible African Newsletter on Occupational Health and Safety: Informal sector including small-scale enterprises Volume 13, No. 1, April 2003,ILO/FINNIDA, Helsinki, Pages 16 - 19 ...

Occupational health and safety in small, medium-sized and informal sector enterprises in Vietnam: Asian-Pacific newsletter on occupational health and safety
2003 - Nguyen Thi Hong Tu; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. Asian-Pacific newsletter on occupational health and safetyResumen disponible Asian-Pacific newsletter on occupational health and safety: The Informal Sector - including small-scale enterprises ILO/FINNIDA. Vol. 10, no. 1 (March 2003), Helsinki, Pages 7 - 11 ...

Occupational health and safety in the urban informal economy in Deft, South Africa: African Newsletter on Occupational Health and Safety
2003 - A. Bogaard, M. Lumens, M. van Niftrik, J. Reijnierse; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. African Newsletter on Occupational Health and SafetyResumen disponible African Newsletter on Occupational Health and Safety: Informal sector including small-scale enterprises Volume 13, No. 1, April 2003,ILO/FINNIDA, Helsinki, Pages 13 - 16 ...

Occupational hygiene and practical solutions: Asian-Pacific newsletter on occupational health and safety
2003 - Ng Lee Penn, Tan Kia Tang, Muhammad Rithaudin Bin Yep Abu; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. Asian-Pacific newsletter on occupational health and safetyResumen disponible Asian-Pacific newsletter on occupational health and safety: The Informal Sector - including small-scale enterprises ILO/FINNIDA. Vol. 10, no. 1 (March 2003), Helsinki, Pages 20 - 22 ...

Occupational Safety and Health in the Informal Sector
1996 - Tornberg, V. Resumen disponible Based on an ILO study and a pilot project in Dar es Salaam carried out from October 1995 to January 1996, discusses strategies for improving working conditions and promoting the extension of occupational health services. Published in the African newsle ...

Occupational Safety and Health in the Informal Sector: Report on intervention strategies in Dar es Salaam
Forastieri V.; Riwa PG.; Swai D.; Normas y Principios y Derechos Fundamentales en el Trabajo Resumen disponible Describes an experimental pilot project on occupational safety and health for 11 informal sector clusters in two districts of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in 1995. ...

Occupational safety and health policy and legislation in Ghana 'stakeholders' workshop report: African Newsletter on Occupational Health and Safety
2003 - S.N. Tettey; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. African Newsletter on Occupational Health and SafetyResumen disponible African Newsletter on Occupational Health and Safety: Informal sector including small-scale enterprises Volume 13, No. 1, April 2003,ILO/FINNIDA, Helsinki, Pages 19 - 21 ...

Occupational Safety and Health videos
SECTOR; Diálogo Social Resumen disponible Originally designed for Trade Union workshops the videos are now in demand from employers. Titles: - Accidents don't have to happen - Hard hats are not enough ...

Old and New Forms of Informality: Report of the technical workshop
2000 - Informal Sector Task Force; Empleo Resumen disponible The Workshop was organized and hosted by the ILO Informal Sector Task Force. It was held at the ILO headquarters in Geneva on 2nd March 2001. The workshop was organized as part of the preparation for the General Discussion on the Informal Economy at t ...

Opciones estrategicas para la formacion profesional en el sector informal urbano
1988 - Ramirez Guerrero J.; Regiones

Organiser les travailleurs indépendants: la politique du secteur non structuré urbain - Revue internationale du travail, Vol 130, No 1, 1991
1991 - Sanyal Bishwapriya

Organizaciones gremiales de la microempresa: Una estrategia de intervención
1998 - T. Klijn; S. Machacuay; Regiones

Organizations in South Africa's Informal Economy: An Overview of Four Sectoral Case Studies.
2003 - Goldman, Tanya.; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Organizations in South Africa's Informal EconomyResumen disponible Presents an overview of the informal economy and analyses strategies adopted by workers organizations to expand representation amongst informal sector workers. Based on a study of clothing, construction, street trading and taxi sectors conducted in 2001. ...

Organized Labour and Economic Liberalization India: Past, present and future
1999 - Debashish Bhattacherjee Attached documents: 1. Organized Labour and Economic Liberalization IndiaResumen disponible This paper examines the role of organized labour in India in a structural and historical context, tracing the economic, political, and social effects of the trade union movement over time. We look at union strategies at the level of the enterprise and/or ...

Organized labour in the 21st Century
2002 - A. V. Jose Attached documents: 1. Organized labour in the 21st CenturyResumen disponible This volume presents a representative sample of the comparative research undertaken by the Institute. It includes selected country case studies on the theme 'Trade union responses to globalization', edited and abridged to illustrate experiences drawn fr ...

Organizarse en pos de la justicia sociale: Informe global con arreglo al seguimiento de la Declaración de la OIT relativa a los principios y derechos fundamentales en el trabajo
2004 - Report of the Director General Attached documents: 1. Organizing for Social Justice; 2. Organizarse en pos de la justicia sociale; 3. S'organiser pour plus de justice socialeResumen disponible Organizarse en pos de la justicia social sigue con la evaluación de las tendencias actuales, que se inició con Su voz en el trabajo. No sorprende que el panorama resulte variopinto. A pesar de la tendencia en general positiva, vinculada a la propagación d ...

Organizing for Socio-Economic Security in India.
Sukti Dasgupta; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. Organizing for Socio-Economic Security in IndiaResumen disponible Women workers in the informal economy are amongst those with least access to social protection. Given their vulnerable status at home and at work, income generation alone may not improve their socio economic status. Their economic empowerment needs to go ...

Organizing in the Informal Economy: A Case Study of Street Trading in South Africa.
2002 - Shirin Motala; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Organizing in the Informal Economy: A Case Study of Street Trading in South AfricaResumen disponible This paper analyses organizational strategies adopted by street traders in South Africa's informal economy. It focuses on three organizations - the Informal Trade Management Board (ITMB) in Durban, the Gauteng Hawkers Association (GHA) in Johannesburg and ...

Organizing in the Informal Economy: A Case Study of the Building Industry in South Africa.
2003 - Tanya Goldman; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Organizing in the Informal Economy: A Case Study of the Building Industry in South AfricaResumen disponible This report seeks to enhance understanding of strategies adopted or currently experimented with by workers' and employers' organizations to organize and improve conditions of informal economic actors in South Africa's construction industry. Interventions ...

Organizing in the Informal Economy: A Case Study of the Clothing Industry in South Africa.
2003 - Mark Bennett; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Organizing in the Informal Economy: A Case Study of the Clothing Industry in South AfricaResumen disponible This paper analyses strategies adopted by workers' organizations to organize and represent clothing workers in the informal economy - homeworkers in particular. It focuses on two organizations - the Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers' Union (SA ...

Organizing in the Informal Economy: A Case Study of the Minibus Taxi Industry in South Africa.
2003 - Jane Barrett; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Organizing in the Informal Economy: A Case Study of the Minibus Taxi Industry in South AfricaResumen disponible This report investigates the transport industry and is published under the series on 'Representation and Organization Building' by IFP/SEED. Two national organizations - the Southern African Transport and Allied Workers' Union (SATAWU) and the South Af ...

Organizing in the Informal Economy: A Case Study of the Municipal Waste Management Sector in South Africa.
2004 - Samson, Melanie; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Organizing in the Informal Economy: A Case Study of the Municipal Waste Management Industry in South Africa.Resumen disponible Examines features of the municipal waste management sector in South Africa, including the legal and policy context, and describes conditions of work and collective barraging arrangements. Provides an overview of worker and employer organizations and sets ...

Organización de la economía informal: Educación obrera. No. 127 (2002)
2002 - Dan Gallin; Diálogo Social Attached documents: 1. Labour Education 2002/2 No. 127; 2. Education ouvrière 2002/2 Numéro 127; 3. Educación Obrera 2002/2 Número 127Resumen disponible Argues that in order to organize women informal workers, trade unions should try to build coalitions with women's organizations. Educación Obrera 2002/2 Número 127, p23-28 Education ouvrière 2002/2 Numéro 127, p23-28 Labour Education 2002/2 No. 127, ...

Organizing in the Taxi Industry: The South African experience
2003 - IFP/SEED, Employment Sector; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Organizing in the Taxi Industry; 2. Organizing in the Taxi Industry - Compressed versionResumen disponible This booklet describes how workers and employers have started organising in South Africa's kombi (mini van) taxi industry, which is still today mainly in the informal economy. The booklet is based on research done by the South African Transport and Allied ...

Organizing Labour in the 21st Century - interactive conference
2001 Attached documents: 1. Organizing the Informal Sector: Notes from the Field; 2. Unionizing in the Informal Sector; 3. What to Do with the Informal Sector? ; 4. Organizing Women Workers and the Informal Sector ; 5. Bolivia, Attitudes Toward Helping the Informal Sector

Organizar a los trabajadores por cuenta propia: la politica del sector no estructurado urbano - Revista internacional del trabajo (Ginebra) 110,(2),1991
1991 - Sanyal, Bishwapriya.

Organizing Workers in the Informal Sector: A strategy for trade union - cooperative action.
2001 - Dr. Johnson Birchall; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Organizing workers in the informal sector : a strategy for trade union : cooperative actionResumen disponible The paper reviews the concept of the informal sector and how to classify informal sector workers. The common origins of trade unions and cooperatives in the early period of industrialization are discussed. At that time organizational boundaries were fluid ...

Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditure in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Efficiency Rationale for Extending Social Protection in Health
1996-2001 - STEP; PAHO; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditure in Latin America and the CaribbeanResumen disponible This report puts forth a classification system that makes it possible to clarify the different concepts that fall under the rubric of out-of-pocket expenditures. We have distinguished three types of expenses: pure out-of-pocket payments, contributions of ...

Panamá : políticas de empleo y trabajo decente para la década del 2000
2002 - Brú, Enrique; Del Cid, Miguel; Regiones Attached documents: 1. Panamá : políticas de empleo y trabajo decente para la década del 2000

Panorama Laboral 2003: Latin America and the Caribbean.
2003 - Mònica Castillo and Ricardo Infante; Regiones Attached documents: 1. Panorama Laboral 2003 - Spanish version

Participation et Animation sociale en milieu urbain informel Africain: Theorie et pratique
1995 - Binninger P.; Maldonado C.; Badiane C.

Participation in Global Value Chains as a Vehicle for SME Upgrading: A Literature Review
2003 - Caspari, Cathrine; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Participation in Global Value Chains as a Vehicle for SME Upgrading: A Literature ReviewResumen disponible SMEs in developing countries often lack the amounts of investment capital necessary to pursue activities that rely intensively upon technology or know-how, such as R&D or marketing, or to engage in branding. Are SMEs in developing countries doomed to stay ...

Pensions for Women in the Informal Economy: Options for developing countries.
1999 - Protección Social Resumen disponible Paper presented for ILO-STEP/WIEGO workshop on social protection for women in the informal economy (Geneva, 6-8 December 1999). ...

People with Disabilities in the Informal Sector. Philippines.
1994 - Farjado, H. Resumen disponible Based on a sample survey of disabled people located in Marikina, Quezon City and Kalookan City (Philippines), assesses the severity of their problems, reviews current approaches and programmes operated by various non-governmental organizations, and makes ...

Perspectives on unorganised labour
2000 - Oberai, A. S; Sivananthiran, A; Venkata Ratnam, C. S.; Regiones Resumen disponible Comprises a collection of papers. Assesses the importance of the informal sector in the development process as the major provider of jobs for several years to come. Reviews the role of the State in designing and implementing schemes of social security and ...

Perú: el sector informal frente al reto de la modernización
1998 - Chávez, Eliana Resumen disponible Comprises four essays which examine the effects of labour legislation and taxation on the activities of the informal sector enterprises in Peru. ...

Petits producteurs urbains d'afrique francophone: analyse et politiques d'appui; etude comparative a bamako, lome, nouakchott et yaounde
1987 - Maldonado C.; Capt J.; Demol E.

Planificacion estrategica y el plan operativo del programa de apoyo al sector informal (pasi).
1996 - Castaneda De Flores D.; Kerkhoff F.

Policy Design for the Promotion of Employment and Incomes in the Informal Economy: The need for labour market information
2002 - George A: Aryee; Regiones Attached documents: 1. Policy Design for the Promotion of Employment and Incomes in the Informal EconomyResumen disponible Paper presented at the Workshop on Making Good Use of Labour Market Information: Windhoek, Namibia, 12-15 August 2002. ...

Políticas de empleo en Chile y América Latina: seminario en honor de Victor E. Tokman
2003 - Regiones Resumen disponible Collection of presentations made at a seminar in March 2003 in honour of Victor Tokman, former ILO Regional Director for Latin America. ...

Población, fuerza de trabajo y empleo: conceptos, tendencias y aspectos de política
1993 - Farooq GM.; Ofosu Y. Attached documents: 1. Secteur informel (Partie V); 2. Extract on the informal sector (Part V); 3. Sector informal (Parte V); 4. Sector informal (Parte VI); 5. Extract on the informal sector (Part VI); 6. Secteur informel (Partie VI)Resumen disponible La presente monografía abarca un aspecto de importancia creciente, especialmente en el contexto del crecimiento sin precedentes de la fuerza de trabajo y las crisis económicas, con el deterioro concomitante de las condiciones de empleo y el crecimiento de ...

Poverty Alleviation through Micro and Small Enterprise Development
ILO Bangkok
     (from Poverty, Local Development and Decent Work Resources database)

Empleo y reducción de la pobreza en los países en desarrollo : es provechoso el salario mínimo? Revista Internacional del Trabajo, Vol 120, No3, 2001
2001 - Catherine Saget Resumen disponible El asunto del efecto del salario mínimo en el empleo y la pobreza ha dado pie a polémicas interminables. Catherine Saget comienza su artículo por una reseña de los estudios al respecto, en la que contrasta la ambivalencia de las predicciones teóricas con ...

Poverty, Employment and Policy Making in Egypt - Country profile
2001 - Dr. Naglaa El-Ehwani and Dr. Heba El-Laithy Resumen disponible Reviews the employment and poverty situations in Egypt and their development during the last three decades. Analyses the integration of employment and poverty reduction objectives in policy-making, and the institutions for employment promotion and some sp ...

Poverty, Local Development and Decent Work - Resource Database
Departamento de Integración de Políticas Resumen disponible The resource database contains over 200 tools and resources that directly or indirectly focus on poverty from a macro-level perspective and/or from a local development perspective within the ILO's decent work framework. ...

Practical application of ILO-OSH 2001 to small enterprises - An example of Vietnam: Asian-Pacific newsletter on occupational health and safety
2003 - Tsuyoshi Kawakami; Ton That Khai; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. Asian-Pacific newsletter on occupational health and safetyResumen disponible Asian-Pacific newsletter on occupational health and safety: The Informal Sector - including small-scale enterprises ILO/FINNIDA. Vol. 10, no. 1 (March 2003), Helsinki, Pages 4 - 7 ...

Premier bilan des etudes de cas sur les normes internationales du travail et la cooperation technique: les differentes facettes de la complementarite entre les activites normatives et celles de cooperation technique
1993 - Vargha C. Resumen disponible Briefly considers the complementarity between international labour standards and technical cooperation with regard to the informal sector, economic development, structural adjustment and of the ILO's Rural Workers' Organization Convention, 1975, (No. 141) ...

Processes of Formalization and Informalization: Selected cases.
1994 - ILO; Regiones Resumen disponible Provides background information on the informal sector, and summarizes a number of case studies: some concerning enterprises which went through the formalization process, and others concerning enterprises which shifted from a formal to an informal status. ...

Productive employment and equity in the rural and informal sectors in Kenya
1995 Resumen disponible National Policy Workshop On Optimal Forms Of Assistance To Women's Employment In The Rural And Informal Sectors ...

Programa Modular de Capacitación e Información sobre Género, Pobreza y Empleo: Módulo 7 - Extender la Protección Social
2001 - Regiones Attached documents: 1. Programa Modular de Capacitación e Información sobre Género, Pobreza y Empleo: Módulo 7 - Extender la Protección SocialResumen disponible En este Módulo se examinaron las limitaciones que tienen, en el plano de la protección social, la legislación del trabajo y los regímenes tradicionales de seguridad social, que en los países en desarrollo abarcan a una parte minoritaria de la fuerza de tr ...

Programme for the Promotion of Self-employment and Micro-enterprises (PRODAME): The case of Peru
2002 - Edited by Normand Lécuyer; General editor: Jean Courdouan; Diálogo Social Attached documents: 1. Programme for the Promotion of Self-employment and Micro-enterprises (PRODAME): The case of PeruResumen disponible Case study presented in New Forms of Labour Administration: Actors in Development (ILO, 2002): The labour administration in Peru has introduced a scheme to create employment by encouraging the establishment of enterprises or the registration of small a ...

Progress of the World's Women 2005: Women, Work & Poverty
2005 - Martha Chen, Joann Vanek, Francie Lund, James Heintz, with Renana Jhabvala and Christine Bonner Attached documents: 1. F1194308449/PoWW2005_eng.pdfResumen disponible The book makes the case for an increased focus on women's informal employment as a key pathway to reducing poverty and strengthening women's economic security. It provides the latest available data on the size and composition of the informal economy and c ...

Promicro: proyecto centroamericano de apoyo a programas de microempresas (secunda fase); informe de evaluacion
1995 - Casanovas R.; Haan H.; Regiones

Promoting Decent Work in the Informal Sector - Workshop
2000 - ILO

Promoción de la igualdad de Género : Carpeta de recursos para sindicatos
2002 - Lin Lean Lim; Sriani Ameratunga; Carmel Whelton; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Organizar a las desorganizados: Módulo 4; 2. Organiser les personnes non syndiquées: Brochure 4; 3. Organizing the Unorganized: Booklet 4Resumen disponible Esta carpeta consta de una serie de módulos. Va acompañada de un Informe que ofrece una perspectiva empírica basada en una encuesta y estudios de caso de las reales experiencias de los sindicatos y de las ¿lecciones aprendidas¿. Módulo 4. Subraya la d ...

Promoting Local Economic Development in a War-Affected Country - The ILO experience in Cambodia
1997 - Roel Hakemulder; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Promoting Local Economic Development in a War-Affected CountryResumen disponible This paper presents a case-study of the

Promoting productivity and social protection in the urban informal sector
1996 - Aryee GA. Resumen disponible Reviews major activities, achievements and lessons learned in three cities: Bogota, Dar es Salaam and Manila. ...

Promoting Productivity and Social Protection in the Urban Informal Sector: An integrated programme approach.
1998 - ILO; Protección Social

Promoting Women's Entrepreneurship through Employers' Organizations in the Asia-Pacific Region.
2002 - IFP/SEED, Employment Sector; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Promoting Women's Entrepreneurship - Presentations and Papers; 2. Promoting Women's Entrepreneurship - Final ReportResumen disponible Examples of employers' organizations support for women's entrepreneurship development, and highlights some examples of best practices are provided. The background country papers and the consultant's commentary show an analysis of the factors affecting wom ...

Protección social en Uruguay. Financiamiento, cobertura y desempeño 1990-2002
2001-2003 - N. Ferreira-Coimbra; A, Forteza; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. Protección social en Uruguay. Financiamiento, cobertura y desempeño 1990-2002Resumen disponible Este libro evalúa las principales dimensiones del desempeño del sistema de protección social en Uruguay. Contiene un análisis del gasto y financiamiento, alcance, extensión y niveles de cobertura de los distintos programas de la protección social. El estu ...

Protecting Workers in MSEs: Can Trade Unions make a Difference? A Case Study of the Bakery and Confectionery Sub-sector in Kenya.
2002 - Gregg J. Bekko and George M. Muchai; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Protecting Workers in MSEs: Can Trade Unions make a Difference?Resumen disponible The overall purpose of this research is to shed light on labour practices and working conditions in MSEs in Kenya by focusing on the bakery and confectionery sub-sector and documenting how trade unions are attempting to redress the decent work deficits in ...

Proyecto regional sobre integracion del sector informal urbano al proceso de modernizacion
1997 - Regiones

Rapid Assessment of Poverty Impacts RAPI - Elaboration of a Rapid Survey Method of Assessing the Poverty Reduction Impacts of Pilot Employment-Intensive Projects
2000; Laura Murphy; Empleo
     (from Poverty, Local Development and Decent Work Resources database)

Rapport de la mission d'évaluation du projet CUROR/PNUD/BIT CMR 97/005
1999 - Demoitie R.; Epee Bekima, E.

Readings on Women Workers in India: selected annotations.
1999 - Bhat, Preeti Attached documents: 1. Readings on Women Workers in India: selected annotationsResumen disponible This bibliography is part of the information package produced by the project for awareness generation and training on women workers' rights. ...

Reconceptualizing Work and Decent Work Indexes.
2002 - IFP/SES, Social Protection; Protección Social Resumen disponible A number of papers related to the topics discussed at the workshop (12-13 December 2002) will be brought out as a book. Forthcoming. ...

Reference guide and tools on health micro-insurance schemes in the Philippines : user's guide
2004 - Protección Social Resumen disponible Intended for individuals or organizations who are planning or operating a scheme to provide social protection to men, women, and their families in the informal sector. Explains the principles of extending health services, how to define a mutual benefit fo ...

Regional Programme to Strengthen the Vocational and Technical Training of Low-Income Women - RLA/96/MO1/IDB - AT/MH-5081-RG
CINTERFOR

Regulation and the informal economy: microenterprises in Chile, Ecuador, and Jamaica
1996 - Tokman VE.; Klein E. Resumen disponible Based on three surveys of small and micro-enterprises in Chile (298 enterprises), Ecuador (415) and Jamaica (240), examines the relationship between activities in the informal sector and laws and regulations. Analyses the characteristics of the enterprise ...

Reinsurance of Health Insurance for the Informal Sector.
2002 - D. Dror Attached documents: 1. Social ReinsuranceResumen disponible The International Labour Office (ILO) and the World Bank have joined forces to devise a new way of helping small health insurers overcome financial crises caused by the unpredictable cost of severe or chronic illness. This innovative approach specifically ...

Resolution Concerning Statistics of Employment in the Informal Sector.
1993 - STAT; Departamento de Integración de Políticas Attached documents: 1. ICLS General Report 1993Resumen disponible Reviews the work of the ILO Bureau of Statistics from 1987 to January 1993. Includes the texts of the ILO Resolutions concerning: (1) statistics of strikes, lockouts and other action due to labour disputes; (2) the statistics of employment in the info ...

Review of institutional linkages for assistance to the urban informal sector
1990 - Sison RG.

Roadmap Study of the Informal Sector in Mainland Tanzania
2002; Dixon Fyle Kanyhama, SEED; Empleo
     (from Poverty, Local Development and Decent Work Resources database)

Role of employers' organisations in the informal sector and in industrial restructuring
1989 - Regiones

Role of the Informal Sector in Coping with Economic Crisis in Thailand and Zambia
2004 - Gerry Finnegan, Andrea Singh; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Role of the Informal Sector in Coping with Economic CrisisResumen disponible Based on surveys of poor households in Thailand and Zambia carried out in 2000. Uses a sustainable livelihood approach to explore the livelihood problems experienced by these households during economic crisis and examines their survival strategies and cop ...

Rural informal sector in Asia: policies and strategies
1995 - Sethuraman, S. V. Resumen disponible ILO. Seminar On The Rural Informal Sector In Asia (1993 : Yogyakarta) ILO. Seminar On The Rural Informal Sector In Asia (1993 : New Delhi, India) ...

Safety and Health in Small-Scale Surface Mines: A handbook.
2001 - Manfred Walle and Norman Jennings; Diálogo Social Attached documents: 1. Handbook - French; 2. Handbook - English; 3. Handbook - SpanishResumen disponible Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) regulations might need to be revised to ensure that the special requirements of small-scale miners are adequately covered. This handbook sets out some basic principles for OSH in the absence of specific regulations, or ...

Safety and health in the informal economy: African Newsletter on Occupational Health and Safety
2003 - I.W.A. Karanja, F.K. Muchiri, A. Muruka; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. African Newsletter on Occupational Health and SafetyResumen disponible African Newsletter on Occupational Health and Safety: Informal sector including small-scale enterprises Volume 13, No. 1, April 2003,ILO/FINNIDA, Helsinki, Pages 4 - 7 ...

Safety and health in the informal sector and small-scale enterprises: the experience of Botswana: African Newsletter on Occupational Health and Safety
2003 - K.G. Regoeng; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. African Newsletter on Occupational Health and SafetyResumen disponible African Newsletter on Occupational Health and Safety: Informal sector including small-scale enterprises Volume 13, No. 1, April 2003,ILO/FINNIDA, Helsinki, Pages 10 - 13 ...

Secteur Informel: Fonctions macro-économiques et politiques gouvermentales - le cas du Burkina-Faso
1997 - Bertrand Gaufryau; Carlos Maldonado Resumen disponible L'étude fait un certain nombre de propositions touchant à l'ensemble des facteurs pouvant avoir des incidences sur le secteur: politiques fiscales et monétaires, amélioration du cadre réglementaire et institutionnel, élimination de certaines contraintes n ...

Secteur informel: fonctions macro-économiques et politiques gouvernementales: le cas de la Côte d'Ivoire
1998 - Carlos Maldonado and Bertrand Gaufryau Attached documents: 1. Le Cas de Côte d'IvoireResumen disponible Ce document de travail fait partie d'une série de publications sur le secteur informel dans huit pays de l'Afrique francophone (Bénin, Burkina-Faso, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Gabon, Niger, Rwanda et Sénégal). L'étude du secteur informel en Côte d'Ivoire est p ...

Secteur informel: fonctions macro-économiques et politiques gouvernementales: le cas du Bénin
1998 - Carlos Maldonado Attached documents: 1. Le cas du BéninResumen disponible Ce document de travail fait partie d'une série de publications sur le secteur informel dans huit pays de l'Afrique francophone (Bénin, Burkina-Faso, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Gabon, Niger, Rwanda et Sénégal). L'étude du secteur informel en Bénin est présentée ...

Secteur informel: fonctions macro-économiques et politiques gouvernementales: le cas du Gabon
1998 - H. Pahhuys; G. Gasarian Attached documents: 1. Le cas du GabonResumen disponible Ce document de travail fait partie d'une série de publications sur le secteur informel dans huit pays de l'Afrique francophone (Bénin, Burkina-Faso, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Gabon, Niger, Rwanda et Sénégal). L'étude du secteur informel en Gabon est présentée ...

Secteur informel: fonctions macro-économiques et politiques gouvernementales: le cas du Niger
1998 - Julien Gasarian; Carlos Maldonado Attached documents: 1. Le cas du NigerResumen disponible Ce document de travail fait partie d'une série de publications sur le secteur informel dans huit pays de l'Afrique francophone (Bénin, Burkina-Faso, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Gabon, Niger, Rwanda et Sénégal). L'étude du secteur informel en Niger est présentée ...

Secteur informel: fonctions macro-économiques et politiques gouvernementales: le cas du Senegal
1998 - Carlos Maldonado and Bertrand Gaufryau Attached documents: 1. Le cas du SenegalResumen disponible Ce document de travail fait partie d'une série de publications sur le secteur informel dans huit pays de l'Afrique francophone (Bénin, Burkina-Faso, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Gabon, Niger, Rwanda et Sénégal). L'étude du secteur informel en Senegal est présent ...

Secteur Informel: Fonctions macro-économiques et politiques gouvernmentales - le cas du Congo
1998 - Carlos Maldonado; Bertrand Gaufryau Resumen disponible L'étude fait un certain nombre de propositions touchant à l'ensemble des facteurs pouvant avoir des incidences sur le secteur: politiques fiscales et monétaires, amélioration du cadre réglementaire et institutionnel, élimination de certaines contraintes n ...

Secteur Informel: Fonctions macro-économiques et politiques gouvernmentales - le cas du Rwanda
1998 - Carlos Maldonado; Bertrand Gaufryau Resumen disponible L'étude fait un certain nombre de propositions touchant à l'ensemble des facteurs pouvant avoir des incidences sur le secteur: politiques fiscales et monétaires, amélioration du cadre réglementaire et institutionnel, élimination de certaines contraintes n ...

Sector informal en Bogota: una perspectiva interdisciplinaria
1997 - Editors: Carlos Maldonado; Montserrat Hurtado; Regiones Resumen disponible El presente volumen tiene por objeto dar a conocer las actividades y los avances preliminares alcanzados al término de la primera fase (junio 1994 a junio 1996) de la aplicación de la estrategia preconizada en Santa Fe de Bogotá. Tal condición confiere a ...

Sector informal en centroamerica
1985 - Haan H.; Regiones Resumen disponible ILO pub-WEP pub-PREALC pub. Study of small scale industry development in the urban area informal sector, Central America - reviews the experience of government policy programmes and state aid; covers problems of access to credit, management development tr ...

Sector informal hoy: el imperativo de actuar
1987 - Tokman VE.; Regiones

Sector informal urbano: una aproximacion a su aporte al producto
1995 - M. A. Castiglia; D. Martínez; J. Mezzera; Regiones Resumen disponible Compares the economic role of the informal sector and its impact on gross domestic product from 1980 to 1989 in Costa Rica and Panama. Lima Documento de trabajo No. 10. ...

Sector informal: quince anos despues
1987 - Tokman VE.; Regiones

Seguridad social para los trabajadores informales colombianos
1997 - Van Ginneken, Wouter; Protección Social

Seguridad social y el sector informal
1990 - Mesa-Lago C.; Regiones

Self-training in theory and practice: the programme to support urban informal sector enterprises in french-speaking Africa
1989 - Carlos Maldonado

Sharing experiences and lessons learned in the informal economy : Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda : project review workshop report, Kampala, 22-24 September 2003
2003 - ILO SYNDICOOP Programme; Empleo Resumen disponible Reviews the achievements of the ILO SYNDICOOP project since its launch in April 1002. Describes activities in three countries aimed at strengthening the capacities of trade unions and cooperatives to work together in the informal economy. Outlines future ...

Shelter Provision and Employment Generation
1997 - Tipple AG.; Regiones Attached documents: 1. Extract on the informal sector (III:B); 2. Extract on the informal sector (I:C)Resumen disponible This thorough and wide-ranging study, published jointly by the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (UNCHS - Habitat) and the ILO, considers shelter provision as a means of meeting housing needs, generating employment and reducing poverty. It exami ...

Sistemas de información sobre el empleo no registrado en los países del Mercosur
1997 - P. Galín; S. Feldman.; Regiones

Situacion sociolaboral en las zonas francas y empresas maquiladoras del istmo centroamericano y republica dominicana
1996 - ACTRAV; Diálogo Social Attached documents: 1. Situacion sociolaboral en las zonas francas y empresas maquiladoras del istmo centroamericano y republica dominicana.Resumen disponible Includes the texts of agreements reached by the Meetings of Central American Labour Ministers in 1993, 1995 and 1996. ...

Skills and work in the informal sector: Evidence from Yaoundé in Cameroon.
2002 - Fluitman, Fred; Momo, Joseph Jean Marie.

Skills in Asia and the Pacific: Why training matters.
1999 - IFP/SKILLS, Employment Sector; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Skills in Asia and the PacificResumen disponible Section 4: Training in the informal sector and equity: Exclusion of vulnerable groups from training and employment. ...

Skills Training for Decent Work in the Informal Sector of the North-West Region of Russia (St. Petersburg and Leningrad region).
2002 - Liudmila I. Velichko; Gortenzia M. Romanenkova; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Training for the informal sector in North-West RussiaResumen disponible This paper presents seven brief case studies related to the training of the unemployed and workers in the informal sector. A definition of the informal sector in the Russian Federation is provided according to which people in the informal economy accou ...

Skills Training in the Informal Sector in China.
2002 - Research Group of the Department of Training and Employment Ministry of Labour and Social Security; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Training in the Informal Sector - ChinaResumen disponible The focus of this report is on skills development, but it also provides background information on the informal sector and its developments in China. ...

Snapshot of working conditions in the urban informal sector.
1994 - Batino, JM. Resumen disponible Provides some baseline information on working conditions in the informal sector, and makes specific recommendations for adapting the ILO approach for improving working conditions in small enterprises to the specific characteristics and needs of the inform ...

Sobre el concepto de sector informal y sus consecuencias juridicas
1994 - Grzetich A.; Mezzera J. Resumen disponible Suggests creation of a category of

Social exclusion in the context of globalization
2004 - Jan Breman Attached documents: 1. Social exclusion in the context of globalizationResumen disponible Professor Breman's major interrogation is to what extent globalization is instrumental in overcoming or, alternately, aggravating situations of exclusion? He argues that it is necessary to understand both phenomena in a historical perspective. Exclusion i ...

Social protection and the informal sector in Central and Eastern Europe: sub-regional trade union seminar report
2000 - Regiones Resumen disponible From a sub-regional Seminar on Social Protection and the Informal Sector in Central and Eastern Europe (2000 : Zagreb, Croatia). Examines social security reforms in Central and Eastern European countries, highlighting approaches to pension reform. Exp ...

Protección social para todos, pero cómo? Revista Internacional del Trabajo, Vol 119, No2, 2000
2000 - Roger Beattie Resumen disponible Este artículo esclarece un asunto candente en todo el mundo: el futuro de la protección social, sobre todo en los países en desarrollo. El autor explica la cobertura de los sistemas (pese a que resulta difícil hacer mediciones precisas) y la influencia qu ...

Social protection for informal workers : insecurities, instruments and institutional mechanisms
2002 - Unni, Jeemol; Rani, Uma; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. Social protection for informal workers : insecurities, instruments and institutional mechanismsResumen disponible Based on data from a People's Security Survey in rural and urban areas of Gujarat State during the year 2000. Analyses the causes of insecurities of workers in the informal economy and identifies core needs of social protection. Makes recommendations for ...

Social protection for people in the informal economy of Nepal
2004 - Sharma, Shiva.; Regiones Resumen disponible Provides an analysis of the scope of existing social protection schemes at different levels, which address the needs of excluded groups of people in Nepal. Portrays the diversity and character of social protection mechanisms in the country implemented by ...

Social Protection for Women in the Informal Economy.
2000 - STEP; WIEGO; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. Social Protection for Women in the Informal EconomyResumen disponible This document is the report of a workshop held in Geneva 6-8 December 1999 the aims of which were to: - identify effective ways of providing social protection to those who work in the informal economy, especially women; - to exchange practical exper ...

Social Protection for Workers in the Informal Economy: New challenges for Asia and the Pacific.
2001 - W. Van Ginneken; Protección Social Resumen disponible Paper from Twelfth ISSA Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific, Towards more effective social security in Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, 20-23 November 2000. (Manila, International Social Security Association, 2001, No 26) ...

Social reinsurance : a new approach to sustainable community health financing
2002 - Dror, David M.; Preker, Alexander S. Attached documents: 1. Social reinsurance : a new approach to sustainable community health financing.Resumen disponible Comprises 25 contributions on strategies and public policies on microinsurance-schemes. Focuses on reinsurance as a mechanism for enlarging the risk pool as well as the coverage of larger population groups, exemplified by experiences made in a pilot proje ...

Social Security and Coverage for All: Restructuring the social security scheme in Indonesia - Issues and options
2003 - Regiones Resumen disponible Reviews the Jamsostek social security programmes, giving details about the various benefit schemes. Covers the extension of coverage to excluded groups, the social budget, and experiences made in the Klaten field trial of the Health Sector Finance Project ...

Social Security at the Dawn of the 21st Century: Topical issues and new approaches
2001 - Hoskins, Dalmer D.; ISSA Resumen disponible Contains 11 essays which discuss 1) policy trends and regional developments in social security reform, management, and informal care, and 2) particular programme areas including employment policy, pension systems and public disability schemes. ...

Seguridad social para la mayoría excluida : estudios de casos de países en desarrollo
2000 - Editor: Ginneken, Wouter van.; Protección Social Resumen disponible Explores, through the case studies, ways in which governments and organizations at national and local levels can work together to bring social security protection to all. Examines self-financed schemes for informal workers and focuses on how NGOs, coopera ...

Social security for the excluded majority. Case studies of developing countries
1999; ILO; Protección Social
     (from Poverty, Local Development and Decent Work Resources database)

Social security for the informal sector : annotated bibliography on developing countries, 1990-1997
1998 - Jesse, Andy; Ginneken, Wouter van. Resumen disponible Contains some 270 bibliographic references grouped under four headings: socio-economic development and poverty; labour protection, social security; and organizing protection. ...

Seguridad social para el sector informal : un nuevo desafío se presenta a los países en desarrollo
1999 - ISSA Resumen disponible Highlights some of the emerging opportunities for self- financed social insurance schemes in the informal sector and attemps to draw some lessons from these experiences. Also available in French and Spanish. Published in the International Labour Rev ...

Social security for the informal sector: Investigating the feasibility of pilot projects in Benin, India, El Salvador and Tanzania.
1997 - Wouter van Ginneken; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. Social security for the informal sectorResumen disponible Comprises five essays on the design of pilot projects and feasibility studies to extend social security coverage to informal sector workers in Benin, India, El Salvador and Tanzania. Covers the target groups and their social security needs, alternative de ...

Social Security for the Informal Sector: Issues, options and tasks ahead.
1996 - Wouter van Ginneken; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. Social Security for the Informal SectorResumen disponible This paper provides a conceptual framework for understanding the social security needs of informal sector workers and their dependants and reviews the three main options for meeting these needs. Finally, the paper identifies the main gaps in our knowled ...

La seguridad social para el sector no organizado en el sur de Asia
2002 - Rajan, Irudaya S.; ISSA Resumen disponible Examines social security programmes for the disadvantaged elderly population in the unorganised sector in three South Asian countries. Focuses on social assistance, old age homes and pensions. Finds that there is inadequate coverage and funding of program ...

Social security for workers in the informal sector in India: a study of programmes implemented by central and state governments
1989 - Wadhawan, S. K.

Social security, poverty reduction and development : arguments for enlarging the concept and coverage of social security in a globalizing world
2004 - Kannan, K. P.; Protección Social Resumen disponible Distinguishes between Basic Social Security (BSS), intended for those who do not dispose of minimal resources and are prone to human deprivation and vulnerability, and Contingent Social Security (CSS), protecting people in hazardous situations arising fro ...

Social security/informal sector: The case of Senegal - Case study presented in - New forms of labour administration : actors in development
2002 - Edited by Lécuyer, Normand; General Editor: Courdouan, Jean.; Diálogo Social Attached documents: 1. Social security/informal sector: The case of SenegalResumen disponible This case study concerns a project in which the labour administration is extending social security programmes to the informal sector. At the explicit request of the Minister of Labour and Employment in 1996, that ministry worked in conjunction with the Se ...

South African Microinsurance Case-Study
2002 - Michael Aliber; Empleo Attached documents: 1. South African Microinsurance Case-StudyResumen disponible This paper forms part of a multi-country project that seeks to understand the risks that low-income entrepreneurs face, their coping strategies, and the potential role that insurance can play in managing those risks. The paper reviews the regulation o ...

Southern Africa : extending social protection to the poor
2003 Resumen disponible Demonstrates the need for social protection systems in countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), in particular for women working in the informal sector. Describes three formal protection schemes currently operating in the region: nat ...

Southern Africa : organisational and negotiating power
2003 Resumen disponible Examines how women's active participation and decision-making in the formation and management of organizations can empower them. Highlights the situation in the informal sector where women's ability to organize and negotiate is further reduced by gender d ...

Start and Improve Your Business (SIYB) program
Empleo Resumen disponible THE PROGAMME The Start and Improve Your Business (SIYB) program is a management-training program with a focus on starting and improving small businesses as a strategy for creating more and better employment in developing economies and economies in transi ...

Street Traders and their Organizations in South Africa
2003 - Empleo Attached documents: 1. Street Traders and their Organizations; 2. Street Traders and their Organizations - Compressed versionResumen disponible This booklet describes how street traders have started organising in Johannesburg and Durban. The main aim of the research and booklet is to help build strong local and national organisations so that street traders can speak with one voice and influen ...

Street Working Children in Albania: In Tirana, Shkodra, Vlora - A rapid assessment survey
2003 - Normas y Principios y Derechos Fundamentales en el Trabajo Resumen disponible Describes the lives of children working in the streets of three Albanian cities employed in four sectors: trade, services, transport and construction. Examines: factors that encourage child labour, characteristics of street child labour and its consequenc ...

Structural Adjustment Programmes and the Urban Informal Sector in Ghana
1995 - S.D. Barwa; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Structural Adjustment Programmes and the Urban Informal Sector in GhanaResumen disponible This is one of several studies carried out to assess the nature and magnitude of the impact of sturctural adjustment programmes on the informal sector. This study on Ghana confirms the negative overall impact of the structural adjustment programme on the ...

Structure and functions of rural workers' organisations. A workers' educational manual
1990; ILO; Diálogo Social
     (from Poverty, Local Development and Decent Work Resources database)

Studies on the SYNDICOOP strategy for organizing workers in the informal economy: country reports: Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda
2004 - Ndamage, G.; Bee, F. K.; Kazoora, C. Attached documents: 1. Studies on the SYNDICOOP strategy for organizing workers in the informal economy: country reports: Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda.Resumen disponible Presents reports from three countries on SYNDICOOP projects aimed at strengthening collaboration between trade unions and cooperatives for the development of small viable cooperatives. Examines the situation of informal sector workers and existing unions ...

Study of self-help associations in Metro-Manila.
1994 - Llanto G.; Dingcong C.; Espinoza ML. Resumen disponible Based on a quantitative survey of informal sector associations in three urban locations: Marikina, Quezon City and Kalookan City (Philippines). Includes six in-depth studies of self help associations from the same locations. ...

Study on social partnership and development in Mongolia
2003 - Regiones Resumen disponible Investigates the effect of the legal environment, economic conditions and capacity of stakeholders in maintaining and developing multifaceted industrial relations. Evaluates all aspects of industrial relations and roles of tripartite constituents, and ide ...

Sub-Regional Course: Social security for informal sector workers.
2002 - ILO, Turin; Regiones

Subcontracting in Metro-Manila: Operations and perspecitves.
1994 - Allal M.; Roaring E.; Roaring V. Resumen disponible Based on a sample survey of subcontractors in three sectors where the latter constitute the main source of income for informal sector operators: garments, footwear and furniture production. ...

Supporting Workers in the Informal Economy: A policy framework.
2002 - Martha Alta Chen, Renana Jhabvala, and Frances Lund; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Supporting Workers in the Informal Economy: A policy frameworkResumen disponible This paper is premised on the notion that the informal economy is here to stay and requires appropriate regulations, laws and policies to correct biases in the existing regulatory, legal, and policy environment that favour formal enterprises and workers t ...

Sustainable community-managed and labour-based upgrading of urban low-income settlements
2002; Hamish Goldie Scot, Jan Fransen, Wilma van Esch; Empleo
     (from Poverty, Local Development and Decent Work Resources database)

Syndicats et les travailleuses dans le secteur non structure: le cas des travailleuses domestiques a recife, bresil et des vendeuses sur les marches a ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
1993 - Anderfuhren M.; Cisse M.

Synthesis of Case Studies of Micro-Insurance and Other Forms of Extending Social Protection in Health in Latin America and the Caribbean
1999 - STEP; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. Synthesis of Case Studies of Micro-Insurance and Other Forms of Extending Social Protection in HealthResumen disponible This report analyzes and synthesizes several micro-insurance experiences and other types of interventions geared toward extending social protection in health to excluded groups in the Region of the Americas. The objective of this report is to characterize ...

Tanzania youth development and employment foundation (tydef): informal sector training for employment: project findings and recommendations
1996 Resumen disponible Reports on a project aimed at increasing urban employment for women and young people by encouraging the target groups to organize into small groups and providing these groups with credit and training. The project was delivered by TYDEF. ...

Tanzania, Child Labour in the Informal Sector: A Rapid Assessment.
2002 - Kadonya, C.; Madihi, M.; Mtwana, S.; Normas y Principios y Derechos Fundamentales en el Trabajo Attached documents: 1. Tanzania - Child Labour in the Informal SectorResumen disponible Based on fieldwork conducted in Arusha, Dar Es Salaam and Mwanza regions, investigates and assesses the children's working conditions in the informal sector. ...

Tanzanian Women Entrepreneurs: Going for Growth
2003 - Empleo
Regiones Attached documents: 1. Tanzanian Women Entrepreneurs: Going for GrowthResumen disponible This report on

Technical Note on the Extension of Social Security to the Informal Economy in Thailand.
2004 - Regiones Resumen disponible Presents an overview of the informal economy in Thailand and identifies the main issues relating to social security coverage. Examines approaches to extending social security and outlines studies and actions required in order to design and implement a str ...

Tenth Asian Regional Conference, Jakarta, December 1985 - Report II - Rural and Urban Vocational Training
1995 Attached documents: 1. Extract on the Informal Sector (eng. Ch II); 2. Le secteur non structuré (Ch III); 3. Le secteur non structuré (Ch II); 4. Extract on the Informal Sector (eng. Ch III)Resumen disponible The main emphasis of this report is on current and future trends conducive to the further development of vocational training at both national and enterprise level, together with an examination of some of the more innovative training approaches which have ...

El desafío del sector no estructurado: Educación obrera. No. 127 (2002)
2001 - E. Delvaux Attached documents: 1. Education ouvrière 2001/2 Numéro 123; 2. Educación Obrera 2001/2 Número 123; 3. Labour Education 2001/2 No. 123Resumen disponible Examines the rapid growth of the informal sector in sub-saharan Africa and outlines an ILO project to promote the organization of workers in this sector. English version - 15-18p Version Français - 14-20p Version Espagnol - 15-21p ...

The Community Contracting Approach: IDEASS
2003 - Protección Social Attached documents: 1. La contratación comunitaria; 2. The Community Contracting ApproachResumen disponible The idea of the community contracting approach, as used in Hanna Nassif, is to solve practical problems, while empowering communities. The approach solves community problems by carrying out urban infrastructure works, and thus improving living and working ...

The Construction Labour Force in South Africa: A study of informal labour in the Western Cape
2002 - Jane English; Diálogo Social Attached documents: 1. The Construction Industry in South AfricaResumen disponible The development of an efficient construction industry is an objective of policy in most countries. However, the focus of research and technical assistance to date has largely been upon the enterprises that comprise the sector - the contractors, subcontrac ...

The Contribution of Mutual Health Organizations to Financing, Delivery, and Access to Health Care: Synthesis of research in nine west and central African countries
1998 - Chris Atim, Ph.D., Abt Associates Inc.; Departamento de Integración de Políticas Attached documents: 1. Contribution des mutuelles de santé au financement, à la fourniture et à l'accés aux soins de santé; 2. The Contribution of Mutual Health Organizations to Financing, Delivery, and Access to Health CareResumen disponible The study represents an important step forward in documenting and understanding the MHO experience in the WCA subregion. The main purpose is to present information that could be of use to key actors in the development of the MHOs: the members and leaders ...

The costs of informality : an illustration from India
2002 - Sudarshan, Ratna M.; Diálogo Social Attached documents: 1. Education ouvrière 2002/2 Numéro 127; 2. Educación Obrera 2002/2 Número 127; 3. Labour Education 2002/2 No. 127Resumen disponible Informal work may bring some immediate benefits to workers and employers alike - but the social costs are high. So do the wider burdens outweigh the short-term gains? Labour Education 2002/2 No. 127, p51-55 Educación Obrera 2002/2 Número 127, p52-57 ...

The Dar es Salaam informal sector, 1995

The dark side of competition in microfinance
2002 - Bredow, Luis; Diálogo Social Attached documents: 1. Labour Education 2002/2 No. 127; 2. Educación Obrera 2002/2 Número 127; 3. Education ouvrière 2002/2 Numéro 127Resumen disponible Describes the battle between socially-oriented microcredit and consumer credit companies. Educación Obrera 2002/2 Número 127, p43-49 Education ouvrière 2002/2 Numéro 127, p47-54 Labour Education 2002/2 No. 127, 43-48 ...

The Demand for Risk-managing Financial Services in Low-income Communities: Evidence from Zambia
2002 - Lemmy Manje; Craig Churchill; Empleo Attached documents: 1. The Demand for Risk-managing Financial Services in Low-income CommunitiesResumen disponible This paper forms part of a multi-country project that seeks to understand the risks that low-income entrepreneurs face, their coping strategies, and the potential role that insurance can play in managing those risks. The authors systematically analyse ...

The extension of social security coverage: The approach of the International Labour Office
2002; Emmanuel Reynaud; Protección Social
     (from Poverty, Local Development and Decent Work Resources database)

The Fight against Poverty and Social Exclusion in Portugal: Experiences from the National Programme of Fight against Poverty
2004 - STEP; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. A luta contra a pobreza e a exclusão social em Portugal. Experiências do Programa Nacional de Luta contra a Pobreza.; 2. La lutte contre la pauvreté et l'exclusion au Portugal. Quelques expériences du Programme national de lutte contre la pauvreté.; 3. The Fight against Poverty and Social Exclusion in Portugal: Experiences from the National Programme of Fight against Poverty; 4. La lucha contra la pobreza y la exclusión social en Portugal. Experiencias del Programa Nacional de Lucha contra la Pobreza.Resumen disponible This study aims to describe and analyse the Portuguese experience of poverty and social exclusion, because the formulation, implementation and results of measures to combat these problems are of undoubted interest and the lessons learnt from it can contri ...

The future of urban employment
1998 Resumen disponible This book presents the immense problems and the enormity of the tasks confronting those who lead the world's large cities, whether in the developing, transitional or industrialized worlds. There is increasing convergence in the problems facing cities in a ...

The gender dimensions of the globalization of production
2004 - Stephanie Barrientos; Naila Kabeer; Naomi Hossain; Departamento de Integración de Políticas Attached documents: 1. The gender dimensions of the globalization of productionResumen disponible This paper starts by reviewing existing information on changing global production systems and gender employment trends, focusing on export agriculture and manufacture. The opportunities and constraints that changing global production has generated for wom ...

The Global Social Trust pilot project. A status review.
2003 - SOC/FAS; Protección Social Resumen disponible The Global Social Trust is an innovative concept in which individual contributors in donor countries are brought together in partnership with recipient countries to extend sustainable social security provision. A pilot project will be launched and this ...

The ILO and the Informal Sector: An institutional history.
2000 - Paul Bangasser; Empleo Attached documents: 1. ILO and the Informal SectorResumen disponible In this paper, the focus is on the institutional history of the ILO and the informal sector. How did the International Labour Office, as a large international and also bureaucratic institution respond to a concept and an economic reality which is both cen ...

The ILO Code of Practice on HIV/AIDS and the world of work
2001 - Protección Social Attached documents: 1. Code of Practice - Urdu; 2. Code of Practice - Russian; 3. Code of Practice; 4. Code of Practice - Spanish; 5. Code of Practice - Azeri; 6. Code of Practice - French; 7. Code of Practice - Arabic; 8. Code of Practice - Turkish; 9. Code of Practice - Japanese; 10. Code of Practice - Thai; 11. Code of Practice - Portugese; 12. Code of Practice - Ukrainien; 13. Code of Practice - VietnameseResumen disponible This code is the product of collaboration between the ILO and its tripartite constituents, as well as cooperation with its international partners. It provides invaluable practical guidance to policy-makers, employers' and workers' organizations and other ...

The ILO digital collection 2003
2003 Resumen disponible Established in 1919 and since 1946 a member of the United Nations Organization, the International Labour Organization has focused on workplace issues actively seeking to create decent work for all - work which is freely undertaken and performed in an envi ...

The Impact of Structural Adjustment on the Urban Informal Sector in Zimbabwe
1995 - Guy C.Z. Mhone; Empleo Attached documents: 1. The Impact of Structural Adjustment on the Urban Informal Sector in ZimbabweResumen disponible Based on 1993 survey of 525 enterprises. This study analyses the impact of structural adjustment measures, as promulgated in the Economic Structural Adjustment Programmes (ESAP), on the urban informal sector in Zimbabwe. The study is based on a sample ...

The Impact of the Economic Crisis on Homeworkers in Thailand
2002 - Haspels and Homenet Thailand; Regiones Resumen disponible Describes the changing conditions and problems faced by homeworkers in two industries, the artificial flower and ready-made garment industries. Briefly reviews the early 1990s and then focuses on the years 1997-2001, which are the critical years of the fi ...

The Indonesian Situation of Public-private Partnerships and the Informal Economy
2002; Urban and Regional Development Institute (URDI); Empleo
     (from Poverty, Local Development and Decent Work Resources database)

The Informal Economy: Issues and Challenges
2002 - Sriyan de Silva; Diálogo Social Resumen disponible This paper provides an outline of some of the issues, problems and challenges relative to the informal economy, with a view to encouraging different actors and policy makers to take them into account in policy formation. It also seeks to identify the caus ...

The Informal Economy: Views from academia.
2005 Resumen disponible This discussion panel was part of the

The Informal Sector in Mongolia: Profiles, needs amd strategies
2001 - Elisabeth Morris; Regiones Resumen disponible This study updates and extends earlier research on the informal sector in Mongolia. The book examines the characteristics of the informal economy and its causes identifying key issues. The book also makes a number of policy reccomendations. Available i ...

The Informal Sector in Sub-Saharan Africa.
2002 - Jantjie Xaba; Pat Horn; Shirin Motala; Empleo Attached documents: 1. The Informal Sector in Sub-Saharan AfricaResumen disponible This paper provides information on 13 predominantly anglophone Sub-Saharan countries. Despite the lack of comparability of data, the authors nonetheless find certain general trends. These include a decline or stagnation in formal employment opportunit ...

The informal sector including small-scale enterprises: Asian-Pacific newsletter on occupational health and safety
2003 - Protección Social Attached documents: 1. Asian-Pacific newsletter on occupational health and safetyResumen disponible Asian-Pacific newsletter on occupational health and safety: The Informal Sector - including small-scale enterprises ILO/FINNIDA. Vol. 10, no. 1 (March 2003), Helsinki ...

The International Conference of Labour Statisticians 2003
2003 Attached documents: 1. ICLS 2003 General Report 1

The Interregional Programme to Support Self-Reliance of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples through Cooperatives and Self-Help Organizations (INDISCO)
1993-2006 - Empleo Resumen disponible INDISCO was launched in 1993 under a DANIDA/ILO Framework Agreement. The objective of the programme is to contribute to the improvement of the socio-economic conditions of indigenous and tribal peoples through demonstrative pilot projects and disseminatio ...

The Kerala Construction Labour Welfare Fund
2004 - Nair, R. P.; Diálogo Social Attached documents: 1. The Kerala Construction Labour Welfare Fund.Resumen disponible Describes the Welfare Fund Programme for construction workers in the state of Kerala. Analyses the functions of the fund and the extent to which it benefits casual workers in the informal economy. ...

The labour movements priorities in the informal sector
1999 - O'Neill, Faith; Diálogo Social Resumen disponible Paper from an International Symposium on Trade Unions and the Informal Sector held by ACTRAV in October 1999.

The needs and characteristics of a sample of micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in Thailand
Maitree Wasuntiwongse; Regiones
     (from Poverty, Local Development and Decent Work Resources database)

The non-contributory pension programme in Argentina: Assessing the impact on poverty reduction
2002; F. Bertranou, C. O. Grushka; Protección Social
     (from Poverty, Local Development and Decent Work Resources database)

The role of social health protection in reducing poverty : the case of Africa
2005 - Waelkens, Maria-Pia; Soors, Werner; Criel, Bart; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. The role of social health protection in reducing poverty : the case of AfricaResumen disponible This literature review aims to increase our knowledge of the potential that social health protection has in reducing poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. Of all regions in the world, sub-Saharan Africa ranks lowest in income per capita, life expectancy at birth ...

El ámbito de la relación de trabajo
2003 Attached documents: 1. Le champ de la relation de travail; 2. The scope of the employment relationship; 3. El ámbito de la relación de trabajoResumen disponible El informe está estructurado como se explica a continuación. En el capítulo I se pasa revista a los antecedentes de la discusión del tema por la OIT, incluida la adopción por la Conferencia, en su 86.ª reunión (1998), de la resolución relativa a la posibl ...

The Size of the Working Poor Population in Developing Countries
2001 - Empleo Attached documents: 1. The Size of the Working Poor PopulationResumen disponible The aim of this paper is to estimate the population of those persons in the labour market in developing countries who are poor and who work. Given that one important common focus of many international agencies is poverty reduction, it is surprising that t ...

The Warp and the Web: Organized production and unorganized producers in the informal food processing industry: Case studies of bakeries, savouries establishments and fish processing in the City of Mumbai (Bombay)
2000 - Ritu Dewan; Diálogo Social Attached documents: 1. The Warp and the Web: Organized production and unorganized producers in the informal food processing industryResumen disponible Analyses the food manufacturing sector in India, focusing on the production of bakery products, savouries and fish products in the city of Mumbai. ...

Tontines and the banking system: is there a case for building linkages?
1994 - Balkenhol B.; Gueye EH. Attached documents: 1. Tontines and the banking system: is there a case for building linkages?Resumen disponible The idea to look closer at tontines in Dakar originated in the late 1980s when the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO) were carrying out a training programme on commercial bank lending to small enter ...

Towards Decent Work in the Informal Sector: The case of Egypt.
2002 - Alia El Mahdi; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Towards Decent Work in the Informal Sector - EgyptResumen disponible The present paper focuses on two dimensions of informality which define the informal sector in Egypt: micro and small enterprises, and informal employment within formal sector enterprises (public and private). The author finds significant gender diffe ...

Towards the universalization of social security: The experience of Tunisia
2002-2002 - Chaabane, Mohamed; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. F814543279/497sp1.pdf; 2. F996521431/496sp1.pdf

Trabajadores vulnerables y sector informal: De lo económico y lo normativo
1995 - J. Mezzera; M. L. Vega-Ruiz.; Regiones Resumen disponible Examines labour legislation regarding the urban informal sector in Latin America. Lima Working Paper No. 5 ...

Trade unions and the global economy : an unfinished story - Labour Education No. 124-125 (2001)
2001 - Robert Kyloh; Faith O'Neill; Carmel Whelton; Diálogo Social Attached documents: 1. Trade unions and the global economy: an unfinished story.Resumen disponible Reviews the origins and the history of the international financial institutions (IFIs) and analyses the growing criticism of these institutions. Examines the evolution of globalization and the impact of the WTO on developing countries' economies. Describe ...

Trade Unions and the Informal Sector: Towards a Comprehensive Strategy.
1999 - ACTRAV; Diálogo Social Attached documents: 1. Trade Unions and the Informal SectorResumen disponible This background paper was presented at a symposium with the same title and as such should be considered a preliminary document drafted for dicussion. The paper begins by reviewing and attempting to make accessible the conceptual and definitional issue ...

Trade Unions in the Informal Sector: Finding their bearings: Nine country papers - Labour Education 1999/3 No. 116
1999 - ACTRAV; Diálogo Social Attached documents: 1. Los sindicatos en el sector no estructurado; 2. Trade Unions in the Informal Sector; 3. Les syndicats dans le secteur non structuré

Formación para el trabajo decente en el sector informal: estudios de caso en el sur de India
2003 - Amit Mitra; Regiones Attached documents: 1. Formación para el trabajo decente en el sector informal: estudios de caso en el sur de India; 2. Training and Skill Formation for Decent Work in the Informal Sector: Case Studies from South IndiaResumen disponible La presente descripción de intervenciones de capacitación con los trabajadores empleados en el sector informal de India permite conocer las características del mundo del trabajo informal y las posibilidades y/o dificultades para el desarrollo de la capaci ...

Training and Skills Acquisition in the Informal Sector: A literature review.
2002 - Marjo-Riita Liimatainen; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Training and Skills Aquisition in the Informal SectorResumen disponible The present paper reviews available literature produced in the 1990s reflecting experiences in the 1990s in Asia and Africa and, to a lesser extent, Eastern Europe, with regard to skills development in the informal sector. It complements a similar exe ...

Training for work in the informal sector : a new evidence from Eastern and Southern Africa
2002 - Haan, Hans Christiaan Attached documents: 1. Training for work in the informal sector : a new evidence from Eastern and Southern Africa

Training for work in the informal sector : fresh evidence from West and Central Africa
2002 - Haan, Hans Christiaan; Serrière, Nicolas Attached documents: 1. Training for work in the informal sector: fresh evidence from West and Central Africa.Resumen disponible Reviews developments in the provision of technical skills for owners and workers of very small businesses, often self-employment, in Benin, Cameroon, Ghana, Niger and Senegal. Highlights case studies of formal and non-formal training efforts relevant for ...

Formación para el trabajo en el sector informal. Nuevos ejemplos de Kenia, Tanzania y Uganda
2003 - Hans Christiaan Haan; Regiones
Empleo Attached documents: 1. Formación para el trabajo en el sector informal. Nuevos ejemplos de Kenia, Tanzania y Uganda ; 2. Training for Work in the Informal Sector: New evidence from Kenya, Tanzania and UgandaResumen disponible El gran crecimiento del sector informal en Africa sub-sahariana obliga a un minucioso análisis de las posibilidades de desarrollar y mejorar las habilidades de los trabajadores a través de una capacitación adecuada y pertinente, haciendo necesaria la expo ...

Training in the Informal Sector of Belarus.
2002 - Yuri Vesselov; Empleo Attached documents: 1. Training in the Informal Sector of BelarusResumen disponible This paper presents the major characteristics of the informal sector in Belarus, especially the involvement of the unemployed in informal entrepreneurial activities. Special emphasis is given to the small business sub-sector. The paper also profiles unemp ...

Training in the urban informal sector of developing countries: some recent findings of local observers
1987 - Fluitman F.

Training policies in support of the urban informal sector (uis)
1987 - Bas D. Resumen disponible Workshop Of Experts On Training In The Urban Informal Sector Of Developing Countries (1987 : Turin, Italy) ...

Training, Equal Opportunities and Social Inclusion - Cinterfor/ILO website

Tripartite Study Tour on Employment Promotion and Income Generation in the Informal Sector: organized by ILO/Japan Long-Term Fellowship Project on Labour and Employment Policy Administration
2002 Attached documents: 1. Study Tour OutlineResumen disponible The tour was held 22nd November to 13th December 2002. The objectives of the Study Tour were to: (i) enhance the capacity of participants to identify and understand key issues relating to the informal economy; (ii) introduce global research, country ...

Underdogs of the urban economy join forces: results of an ILO programme in Mali, Rwanda and Togo - International labour review (Geneva) 128,(1),(1989,) p.65-84.
1989 - Maldonado C.

Union education for informal workers in Latin America: Labour education 2002/2 No. 127
2002 - Castillo, Gerardo; Frohlich, Miguel; Orsatti, Alvaro; Diálogo Social Attached documents: 1. Education ouvrière 2002/2 Numéro 127; 2. Educación Obrera 2002/2 Número 127; 3. Labour Education 2002/2 No. 127Resumen disponible Describes the education programmes aimed at informal workers launched by the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions and its regional organization for the Americas (ICFTU-ORIT). Educación Obrera 2002/2 Número 127, p9-14 Education ouvrière 200 ...

Sindicación de trabajadores informales en Ghana
2002 - Ghartey, Nana K.T.; Kwabla Dorkenoo, David; Diálogo Social Attached documents: 1. Educación Obrera 2002/2 Número 127; 2. Labour Education 2002/2 No. 127; 3. Education ouvrière 2002/2 Numéro 127Resumen disponible Discusses the efforts that trade unions have made in organizing workers in the informal economy. Educación Obrera 2002/2 Número 127, p38-43 Education ouvrière 2002/2 Numéro 127, p41-47 Labour Education 2002/2 No. 127, p38-43 ...

Sindicatos y economía informal en Africa: Educación obrera. No. 127 (2002)
2002 - Mwamadzingo, Mohammed; Diálogo Social Attached documents: 1. Educación Obrera 2002/2 Número 127; 2. Labour Education 2002/2 No. 127; 3. Education ouvrière 2002/2 Numéro 127Resumen disponible Analyses the role that trade unions can play in promoting the needs of workers in the informal economy. Educación Obrera 2002/2 Número 127, p33-38 Education ouvrière 2002/2 Numéro 127, p35-41 Labour Education 2002/2 No. 127, p33-38 ...

United Republic of Tanzania: training and income-generating activities for disabled persons; project findings and recommendations
1996 Resumen disponible Assesses the progress made in the implementation of a project providing vocational skills training and promoting entry into mainstream employment of 200 disabled people (50 per cent women). The aim was to increase self-reliance through income generating a ...

Sindicatos y la economía informal.
2002 - ACTRAV; Diálogo Social Attached documents: 1. Unprotected labour: What role for unions in the informal economy?; 2. Sindicatos y economía informal; 3. Main-d'oeuvre non protégée: quel syndicalisme pour l'économie informelle?

Urban employment guidelines: Employment-intensive participatory approaches for infrastructure investment.
1998 - Liu Jinchang Resumen disponible Contains guidelines developed in line with the ILO's 1996- 7 work programme, to assist social partners, local authorities and informal sector organizations in the planning, implementation and evaluation of employment- ntensive community development initia ...

Urban informal sector in Asia: an annotated bibliography
1992 - Sethuraman, S. V.

Urban informal sector in developing countries and the collection and analysis of labour market information: issues and priorities
1986 - Haan HC. Resumen disponible Conference paper on characteristics of the urban area informal sector and labour market data collecting in developing countries - discusses information needs, information sources and data processing; considers government policy to support the informal sec ...

Urban informal sector in developing countries: employment, poverty and environment.
1981 - Sethuraman, S. V. Resumen disponible The book contains the findings on informal sector case studies in Freetown, Lagos, Kano (Nigeria), Kumasi (Ghana) - all of which were carried out during the 1970s. It is perhaps the first book of its kind because not only does it discuss the conceptual an ...

Urban Informal Sector in Metro Manila: A problem or solution?
1997 - G. Joshi Resumen disponible Based on a 1995 survey of 4000 informal sector establishments and households in Manila, Philippines, examines issues related to the stability and security of the sector, the nature of self-help groups, and the potential for transition to a formal economic ...

Urban informal sector: concept, measurement and policy
1976 - Sethuraman, S. V. Resumen disponible ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper suggesting a definition of the informal sector enterprises in developing country urban areas - constitutes part of a WEP research project concerning urbanization and employment, and includes criteria for identifying informal ...

Urban Poor Women as Caregivers and Breadwinners: A report on community-based child care for women in the informal sector.
1996 - Labajo M. Resumen disponible Based on a survey of urban poor women in Quezon City (Philippines) concerning their child care practices and their perceptions about having child care centres in their own communities. ...

Urban Poverty and the Informal Sector: A Critical Assessment of Current Strategies
1997; S.V. Sethuraman
     (from Poverty, Local Development and Decent Work Resources database)

Urban Poverty Partnership Programme (UPP): Capacity building for employment generation in the urban informal sector.
1998 - S. Miller

Urban sector in India : macro trends and policy perspectives
1999 - Kundu, Amitabh Resumen disponible Provides an overview of macro trends and policy perspectives related to the urban informal sector in India and suggests alternative approaches to the analysis of the informal sector. Covers the period between 1970 and 1993-1994. ...

Ventas informales: relaciones con el sector moderno
1990 - Mezzera J.; Regiones

Voice from ACTRAV project: Workers educational assistance in strengthening trade union support for workers in the informal sector in Indonesia and Viet Nam.
2001 - Uffe Elbaek Resumen disponible Paper presented at the International Seminar on the Labour Movement : Opportunities and Strategies, Geneva, 19-21 April 2001 Makes recommendations for raising trade union awareness of the difficulties faced by informal sector workers and for integratin ...

Salarios, empleo y derechos de los trabajadores en América Latina entre 1970 y 1998
1999 - John Weeks Resumen disponible La teoría económica neoclásica y ortodoxa predice que la liberalización comercial y la flexibilidad laboral revitalizan el empleo y el crecimiento económico y fomentan los aumentos de salarios. Pues bien, lo sucedido en Latinoamérica durante los tres últi ...

Website on Informal Economy
Empleo Resumen disponible Website developed initially for the International Labour Conference General Discussion on Decent Work and the Informal Economy. ...

WISH Manual on Occupational Safety and Health for Homeworkers
2003 - Regiones

Women and Men in the Informal Economy: A statistical picture
2002 - Empleo Attached documents: 1. Women and Men in the Informal Economy: A statistical pictureResumen disponible The purpose of this report is to provide a statistical picture, using the available data, of the informal economy worldwide. The statistics and indicators presented in this booklet are designed to give a wide audience of users a better understanding of th ...

Women Entrepreneurs: A Baseline Survey - WEDE
2004 - Cross Sectoral Resumen disponible The WEDE Baseline Survey reports on the socio-economic situation of income-poor women. It also reports on the assistance provided to them by seven NGOs. The NGOs provided micro credit for income generating activities and developing small and medium-scale ...

Mujeres en la economía no estructurada: es urgente garantizar la protección de la maternidad.
2002 Attached documents: 1. Mujeres en la economía no estructurada: es urgente garantizar la protección de la maternidad: Convenios colectivos mundiales: un marco de derechos; 2. Magazine Travail No. 45 2002; 3. World of Work No. 45 2002Resumen disponible World of Work No. 45, December 2002 Magazine Travail No. 45, Décembre 2002 TRABAJO, Núm. 45, diciembre de 2002 ...

Women in the Informal Sector and their Access to Microfinance
1998 - Empleo Attached documents: 1. Women in the Informal Sector and their Access to MicrofinanceResumen disponible Paper prepared for the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Annual Conference, Windhoek, Namibia, 2-11 April 1998. How do development experts address the constraints faced by female entrepreneurs in their access to microfinance? The paper states that to ...

Women organise for basic security
2002 - Protección Social Resumen disponible Portrays the daily lives of several low-income women, working in the informal sector, who work long hours under difficult conditions, and describes how they have been helped by SEWA (the Self Employed Women's Association) which has campaigned to improve t ...

Women organizing for social protection: The Self-employed Women's Association's Integrated Insurance Scheme, India.
2001 - STEP; Protección Social Attached documents: 1. Women organizing for social protectionResumen disponible This study has been undertaken in order to better understand and to share the lessons of this experience. Its aim is not an evaluation of the scheme. It discusses issues relevant to a better understanding of the insurance scheme, such as information about ...

Work Improvements in Small Enterprises (WISE)
Protección Social Resumen disponible The ILO's Work Improvement in Small Enterprises (WISE) programme is designed to promote practical, voluntary action to improve working conditions by owners and managers of small and medium enterprises. Since the first publication in 1988 of the Action man ...

Work in the World: A teachers guide to work issues
2002 Attached documents: 1. Work in the World, 2002, Part 2; 2. Work in the World: A teachers guide to work issues - second editionResumen disponible This guide is aimed at teachers of students aged 14 plus. It is made up of text, activities, glossary boxes, case studies and a list of resources and addresses of useful organizations. The text has been written to provide teachers with background infor ...

Work, law and the "informality" concept: Labour Education 2002/2 No. 127
2002 - Justice, Dwight W.; Diálogo Social Attached documents: 1. Labour Education 2002/2 No. 127; 2. Educación Obrera 2002/2 Número 127; 3. Education ouvrière 2002/2 Numéro 127Resumen disponible Examines whether the concept of informality is useful or meaningful. Argues that it would be more helpful to concentrate on identifying workers that are unrepresented, unrecognized or unprotected. Educación Obrera 2002/2 Número 127, p4-9 Education ouv ...

Working conditions: Informal economy: I-WEB : A business-oriented approach to improving conditions in micro-enterprises
Attached documents: 1. I-WEB ManualResumen disponible The ILO's Improve Your Work Environment and Business (I- WEB) approach aims to bring together in an integrated way the ILO's approaches for improving working conditions (WISE) and business development (SIYB) in small and micro- enterprises. It is a practi ...

Working Conditions: Informal economy: Improving working and employment conditions of street and market vendors in Indonesia
Protección Social Attached documents: 1. Observation of Working and Employment Conditions; 2. Background and Project Outline; 3. Identifying Practical InitiativesResumen disponible Street and market vendors, the majority of whom are women, account for an important share of informal employment around the world. They commonly endure poor working and employment conditions, including long working hours, physically difficult and uncomfor ...

Working out of Poverty
Office of the DG
     (from Poverty, Local Development and Decent Work Resources database)

Working with Radio Stations
IFP/SEED, Employment Sector; Empleo Attached documents: 1. FIT Manual for Radio Companies - with photos; 2. FIT Manual for Radio Companies - without photos

Workshop on Reconceptualizing Work and Decent Work Indexes.
2002 - IFP/SES, Social Protection; Protección Social Resumen disponible Held at ILO, Genevea, 12-13 December 2002. Book with revised versions of the papers presented due early 2004. ...

El Empleo en el Mundo 1995
1995 Attached documents: 1. Sector no estructurado; 2. Extract on the informal sectorResumen disponible Este informe la siguiente estructura: - En la parte primera se detallan los aspectos esenciales de la mundialización en curso de la economía. Se centra la atención en el crecimiento del comercio mundial y de las inversiones directas extranjeras y en la ...

Informe sobre el Empleo en el Mundo 1998-1999: Empleabilidad y Mundialización - Papel Fundamental de la Formación
1998 Attached documents: 1. Extract on the Informal Sector (Ch. 8); 2. Le secteur informel (Ch. 8); 3. El sector no estructurado (Ch. 8); 4. Extract on the Informal Sector (Ch. 7); 5. El sector no estructurado (Ch. 7); 6. Le secteur informel (Ch. 7)Resumen disponible En el debate de las políticas a seguir en relación con las disposiciones más adecuadas para aumentar la competitividad, el crecimiento y el empleo en una economía internacional mundializada se destaca actualmente la necesidad imperiosa de disponer de una ...

El empleo en el mundo 2004
2004 - Empleo Resumen disponible En el Informe sobre el Empleo en el Mundo 2004-2005 se abordan tres temas conexos, a saber: el empleo, la productividad y la reducción de la pobreza. Las inversiones destinadas a mejorar la productividad permiten que los trabajadores y las trabajadoras ob ...

El trabajo en el mundo - 1997-98: Relaciones laborales, democracia y cohesión social
1998 Attached documents: 1. Extract on the informal sector; 2. Sector no estructurado; 3. Secteur informelResumen disponible Ya sea que hablemos de globalización, democracia, ajuste o flexibilidad, el mundo está hoy en cambio constante. Hay indicios de que estamos también al final de un período de estabilidad en el mercado laboral. Los arquitectos de esta estabilidad en muchos ...

El trabajo en el mundo 1997-98: Relaciones laborales, democracia y cohesión social
1998 Attached documents: 1. GB 271 ESP/1 Inglés; 2. GB 271 ESP/1 Francés; 3. GB 271 ESP/1 EspagñolResumen disponible Includes a summary of the trends and conclusions identified in the World Labour Report 1997-98 and examines the consequences which ensue for ILO activities. ...

Informe Sobre el Trabajo en el Mundo 2000: La seguridad de los ingresos y la protección social en un mundo en plena transformación
2000 Resumen disponible En este importante estudio de la Oficina Internacional del Trabajo, se examina la evolución del contexto en el que las mujeres y los hombres tratan de lograr la seguridad de los ingresos para ellos y para sus familias. A partir de informaciones detalladas ...

Trabajo en el mundo 5: los derechos humanos en el trabajo; el empleo; las relaciones de trabajo; la proteccion social y las condiciones de trabajo; anexo estadistico
1992 Attached documents: 1. The informal sector; 2. El sector no estructuradoResumen disponible Por todo ello, hemos cambiado la periodicidad y el contenido de El trabajo en el mundo. Sus cuatro primeros volúmenes se publicaron cada dos años, mientras que éste y los siguientes tendrán carácter anual. Y, en vez de centrarse en un tema, versarán a par ...

Zambian Women Entrepreneurs: Going for Growth
2003 - Empleo Attached documents: 1. Zambian Women Entrepreneurs: Going for GrowthResumen disponible This report on

Évaluation finale du projet de formation modulaire en faveur de l'artisanat rural proformar
1997 - Woillet, Jean-Claude; Pabanel, Jean-Pierre
   

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