Publications on informal economy

  1. Publication

    Social security for the excluded majority: Case studies of developing countries

    01 January 1999

    This book looks closely at the workings of self-financed schemes for informal workers that emerged in the 1990s, and highlights the schemes that have been most beneficial. The authors evaluate various approaches to the extension of formal sector social insurance to informal sector workers, including the self-employed. In addition, they explore how social assistance programmes, although often requiring sophisticated administration, can help ensure that benefits reach the population most in needs, such as children, the disabled and the elderly. The study offers an in-depth analytical introduction on the extension of social security in developing countries as a whole, and a conclusion containing innovative policy recommendations for countries designing and implementing new programmes.

  2. Publication

    Urban employment guidelines : employment-intensive participatory approaches for infrastructure investment

    01 January 1998

  3. Publication

    Health impact of occupational risks in the informal sector in Zimbabwe

    01 January 1997

    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.

  4. Publication

    Promoting local economic development in a war-affected country: The ILO experience in Cambodia

    01 January 1997

    This paper analyses the "Small Enterprise and Informal Sector Promotion" project, implemented in Cambodia (1992 - 1995) to raise the living standards of disadvantaged, war affected, population. Its strategy was the promotion of local economic development by providing financial and non financial services to small scale and private economic activities.

  5. Publication

    Social Finance Working Paper #15: Assessing the efficiency and outreach of micro-finance schemes

    01 August 1996

  6. Publication

    Social Finance Working Paper #9: Monitoring guidelines for semi-formal financial institutions active in small enterprise finance

    01 April 1995

  7. Publication

    Social Finance Working Paper #2: Tontines and the banking system

    01 April 1994

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