Articles
December 2009
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ILO, WTO joint study on trade and informal employment: Globalization and Informal Jobs in Developing Countries
01 December 2009
This study finds that the high incidence of informal employment in the developing world suppresses countries’ ability to benefit from trade opening by creating poverty traps for workers in job transition. It is a product of the collaborative research programme of the ILO International Institute for Labour Studies and the WTO Secretariat.