Informal economy resources
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  1. Financial education for families: trainer’s manual

    01 November 2011

    This Financial Education training manual is based on a 2006 adaptation for families of working children in Cambodia by two ILO projects: Women’s Entrepreneurship Development and Gender Equality (WEDGE) and the Time Bound Programme on the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour (IPEC). The original materials were developed by the Financial Education for the Poor Project, supported by Microfinance Opportunities, Citigroup and Freedom from Hunger. This edition was further adapted in 2011 to represent the context of Indonesia.

  2. Constraints on policy making towards the informal economy in Indonesia: lessons of the current decade

    15 October 2010

    This study was undertaken as part of an effort to draw out policy lessons learnt since the systemic shock triggered by the 1997/98 crisis, to provide a summary evaluation of the existing policy framework to lower informal workers’ vulnerability to economic insecurity, and to highlight the remaining and emerging challenges. The paper provides a useful guide to monitor the implementation process of the National Mid-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) 2010-2014 in relation to the informal economy.

  3. The informal economy in Indonesia: size, composition and evolution

    15 October 2010

    This study of statistical audit informal economy: an Indonesian case study was undertaken as part of an effort to clarify data- and statistics-related challenges faced in measuring and monitoring the size and trend of the informal economy in Indonesia. The paper provides a useful guide to monitor the implementation process of the National Mid-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) 2010-2014 in relation to the informal economy.

  4. Social dialogue on informal economy and decent work

    27 September 2010

    Despite Indonesian unemployment and poverty rate is being declining, the share of informal economy in total employment has increased as a consequence of the recent financial and economic crisis.

  5. Child domestic labour

    14 April 2010

  6. Informal economy

    29 March 2010

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