Publications by WIEGO

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• Gender Differences in the Structure of Employment. Background Indicator for MDG #3.
  
  

• Adato, Michelle, Akhter Ahmed and Francie Lund. 2004. Linking Safety Nets, Social Protection and Poverty Reduction: Directions for Africa. IFPRI 2020 Policy Brief for All-Africa Conference.
  
  
• Alia, Patrick O., Winnie Mitullah and Anne Kamau. 2002. Policies, Regulations, and Organisational Capacity of Women Street Vendors in Kenya: A Handbook. Nairobi: Institute of Development Studies, University of Nairobi.
  
  
• Alia, Patrick O., Winnie Mitullah and Anne Kamau. 2000. “Policies, Regulations, and Organisational Capacity of Women Street Vendors in Kenya: Proceedings of the National Workshop.” IDS Discussion Paper, No. 299. Nairobi: Institute of Development Studies, University of Nairobi.
  
  
• Baden, Sally. 2001. Researching Homework and Value Chains in the Global Garments Industry: An Annotated Resource List and Binder.
  
  
• Bajaj, Majul. 2000. “Invisible Workers, Visible Contributions: A Study of Homebased Women Workers in Five Sectors across South Asia.” Background Paper for South Asia Regional Policy Workshop on Home-Based Work, September 2000.
  
  
• Bhatt, Ela and Renana Jhabvala. Forthcoming. “The Idea of Work”. In Martha Chen, Renana Jhabvala and Guy Standing, eds., Labour and Informality: Rethinking Work.
  
  
• Bhowmik, Sharit K. 2005. Street Vendors in Asia : A Review. Economic and Political Weekly, 28 May- 4 June.
  
  
• Bhowmik, Sharit K. 2004. “Survey of Research on Street Vendors in Asia”. A Review Commissioned by WIEGO.
  
  
• Bhowmik, Sharit K. 2003. "Urban Responses to Street Trading: India." Paper for panel entitled "Urban Responses to Street Traders: A Comparative Perspective from India, Kenya, and South Africa" at the Urban Research Symposium on Urban Development for Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction, World Bank, Washington, D.C., December 2003.
  
  
• Budlender, Debbie, Peter Buwembo and Nozipho Shabala. 2001. “ The Informal Economy: Statistical Data and Research Findings.” Country case study: South Africa. Background paper for Women and Men in Informal Employment: A Statistical Picture.
  
  
• Carr, Marilyn. 2004. Chains of Fortune: Linking Women Producers and Workers with Global Markets. London: Commonwealth Secretariat.
  
  
• Chen, Martha Alter and Marilyn Carr. 2004. "Globalization, Social Exclusion and Work: With Special Reference to Informal Employment and Gender." International Labour Review: Special Issue on More Equitable Globalization, Vol. 143, Nos. 1-2, Geneva: ILO.
  
  
• Chen, Martha Alter and Marilyn Carr. 2002. " Globalization and the Informal Economy: How Global Trade and Investment Impact on the Working Poor." Working Paper on the Informal Economy , No. 1. Geneva : ILO
  
  
• Carr, Marilyn and Martha Chen. 2000. “Homebased Women Workers in the Informal Sector in South Asia: Creating an Enabling Environment.” Background Paper for Regional Policy Workshop on Home-Based Work, September 2000.
  
  
• Carr, Marilyn, Martha Chen, and Jane Tate. 2000. “Globalization and Homebased Workers.” Feminist Economics, Vol. 6, No. 3, November 2000.
  
  
• Carré, Françoise. Forthcoming. “Flexibility, Informalization, and New Forms of Work: Nonstandard Work Arrangements in Western Europe”. In Martha Chen, Renana Jhabvala and Guy Standing, eds., Labour and Informality: Rethinking Work.
  
  
• Carré, Françoise and Joaquin Herranz, Jr. 2002. “Informal Jobs in Industrialized ‘North’ Countries”. Background paper for Women and Men in Informal Employment: A Statistical Picture.
  
  
• Charmes, Jacques and Jeemol Unni. Forthcoming. “Measurement of Work”. In Martha Chen, Renana Jhabvala and Guy Standing, eds., Labour and Informality: Rethinking Work.
  
  
• Charmes, Jacques and Mustapha Lakehal. Forthcoming. “Industrialization and New Forms of Employment in Tunisia”. In Martha Chen, Renana Jhabvala and Guy Standing, eds., Labour and Informality: Rethinking Work.
  
  
• Chatterjee, Mirai, Martha Chen and Jeemol Unni. Forthcoming. “Autonomy, Security and Voice: Informal Women Workers in Ahmedabad City, India”. In Martha Chen, Renana Jhabvala and Guy Standing, eds., Labour and Informality: Rethinking Work.
  
  
• Chen, Martha. Forthcoming. "Rethinking the Informal Economy: Linkages with the Formal Economy and the Formal Regulatory Environment". In Basudeb Guha-Khasnobi, Ravi Kanbur, and Elinor Orstrom, eds., Unlocking Human Potential: Concepts and Policies for Linking the Informal and Formal Sectors.
  
  
• Chen, Martha. 2006. Self Employed Women : A Profile of SEWA's Membership. Ahmedabad: Self-Employed Women's Association.
  Table of Contents - Part I - Part II - Part III - Part IV - Part V
  
  
• Chen, Martha. 2005. "The Business Environment and the Informal Economy: Creating Conditions for Poverty Reduction." Background paper for the Committee of Donor Agencies for Small Enterprise Development Conference on “Reforming the Business Environment,”
  November 29 - December 1 2005, Cairo, Egypt.
  
  
• Chen, Martha. 2004. Towards Economic Freedom: The Impact of SEWA. Ahmedabad: Self-Employed Women's Association.
  
  
• Chen, Martha. 2003a. "Rethinking the Informal Economy". Seminar, Vol. 531, November 2003.
  
  
• Chen, Martha. 2003b. “Rethinking the Informal Economy: From Enterprise Characteristics to Employment Relations.” Electronic proceedings of a joint Cornell University – WIEGO Conference on ‘Rethinking Labor Market Informalization: Precarious Jobs, Poverty and Social Protection.”
  
  
• Chen, Martha. 2000. “Women in the Informal Sector: A Global Picture, the Global Movement.” SAIS Review, Vol. XXI, No. 1, Winter - Spring 2000.
  
  
• Chen, Martha Alter, Renana Jhabvala, Ravi Kanbur, Nidhi Mirani, Karl Osner and Carol Richards, eds. 2005. Membership Based Organizations of the Poor: Reflections After an Exposure and Dialogue Program with SEWA in Gujarat , India , January 2005.
  
  
• Chen, Martha Alter, Renana Jhabvala, Ravi Kanbur, Nidhi Mirani and Karl Osner, eds. 2004. Reality and Analysis: Personal and Technical Reflections on the Working Lives of Six Women . Working Paper 2004-06. Ithaca , NY : Working Paper, Department of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University.
  
  
• Chen, Martha Alter, Renana Jhabvala, and Reema Nanavaty. 2003. "Investment Climate and Informal Enterprises: A Case Study from Urban and Rural India ". Background Case Study for World Development Report 2005: A Better Investment Climate for Everyone.
  
  
• Chen, Martha Alter, Renana Jhabvala and Frances Lund. 2002. "Supporting Workers in the Informal Economy: A Policy Framework." Working Paper on the Informal Economy , No. 2. Geneva : ILO.
  
  
• Chen, Martha, Renana Jhabvala, and Guy Standing, eds. Forthcoming. Labour and Informality: Rethinking Work.
  
  
• Chen, Martha, Renana Jhabvala, and Ratna Sudarshan. Forthcoming. “Reconceptualizing Controls: Individual Transactions, Economic Systems and Structural Forces”. In Martha Chen, Renana Jhabvala and Guy Standing, eds., Labour and Informality: Rethinking Work.
  
  
• Chen, Martha Alter, Jennefer Sebstad and Lesley O'Connell. 1999. "Counting the Invisible Workforce: The Case of Homebased Workers." World Development¸ Vol. 27, No. 3.
  
  
• Chen, Martha Alter and Joann Vanek. 2005. "Informal Employment: Rethinking Workforce Development." In Tony Avigan, L. Josh Bivens and Sarah Gammage, eds., Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, No Jobs: Labor Markets and Informal Work in Egypt , El Salvador , India , Russia , and South Africa . Washington , D.C. : Economic Policy Institute.
  
  
  
• Chen, Martha Alter, Joann Vanek and Marilyn Carr. 2004. Mainstreaming Informal Employment and Gender in Poverty Reduction: A Handbook for Policymakers and Other Stakeholders. London: Commonwealth Secretariat.
  
  
  
• Chen, Martha Alter, Joann Vanek, Francie Lund, James Heintz with Christine Bonner and Renana Jhabvala. 2005. The Progress of the World's Women 2005: Women, Work and Poverty.New York: UNIFEM.
  
  
• Esim, Simel. 2000. “Why Earn Less? Gender-based Factors Affecting the Earnings of Self-Employed Women in Turkey.” Paper Presented at Conference of International Association for Feminist Economics, August 2000.
  
  
• Gonzalez, Tatiana. 2001. “Review of the Mixed Survey in The Colombian Informal Sector." Background Paper for the Latin American Regional Workshop on Statistics in the Informal Economy, October 2001.
  
  
• Homenet Thailand. 2002. The Impact of the Economic Crisis on Homeworkers in Thailand. Bangkok: Homenet Thailand.
  
  
• Horn, Pat. Forthcoming. “Voice Regulation in the Informal Economy and New Forms of Work”. In Martha Chen, Renana Jhabvala and Guy Standing, eds., Labour and Informality: Rethinking Work.
  
  
• Hussmanns, Ralf. 2001. " Informal Sector and Informal Employment: Elements of a Conceptual Framework." Background Paper for the Latin American Regional Workshop on Statistics in the Informal Economy, October 2001.
  
  
• ILO. 2002. Women and Men in the Informal Economy: A Statistical Picture. Geneva: ILO. Written by Marty Chen and Joann Vanek using multi-country data analyzed by Jacques Charmes and country studies by Debbie Budlender, Peter Buwembo, Nozipho Shabala, Jeemol Unni, Marge Guerrero, Rodrigo Negrete, Françoise Carré, and Joaquin Herranz, Jr.
  
  
• Krause, Alvaro. 2001. “Reporte del Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas de Chile.” Background Paper for the Latin American Regional Workshop on Statistics in the Informal Economy, October 2001.
  
  
• Lund, Francie. 2005. “A Framework for Analyzing Social Protection for Workers in the Informal Economy.” In Claudia Piras, ed. Women at Work: Challenges for Latin America. Washington, D.C.: Inter-American Development Bank
  
  
• Lund , Francie. 2003. "People Working Informally: Negotiating the Use of Public Spaces in Durban City." Paper for panel entitled "Urban Responses to Street Traders: A Comparative Perspective from India, Kenya, and South Africa" at the Urban Research Symposium on Urban Development for Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction, World Bank, Washington, D.C., December 2003.
  
  
• Lund , Francie and Caroline Skinner. 2004. Integrating the informal economy in urban planning and governance: A case study of the process of policy development in Durban , South Africa. International Development Planning Review , Vol. 26, No. 4. ABSTRACT ONLY.
  
  
• Lund , Francie and Caroline Skinner. 2003. "The Investment Climate for the Informal Economy: A Case of Durban , South Africa". Background Case Study for World Development Report 2005: A Better Investment Climate for Everyone.
  
  
• Lund , Francie, Jillian Nicholson and Caroline Skinner. 2000. Street Trading. Durban: School of Development Studies.
  
  
• Lund, Francie and Jeemol Unni. Forthcoming. “Reconceputualizing Security”. In Martha Chen, Renana Jhabvala and Guy Standing, eds., Labour and Informality: Rethinking Work.
  
  
• Lund , Francie and Smita Srinivas. 2000. Learning From Experience: A Gendered Approach to Social Protection for Workers in the Informal Economy. Geneva: ILO.
  
  
• McCormick, Dorothy and Hubert Schmitz. 2002. Manual for Value Chain Research on Homeworkers in the Garment Industry. Brighton: Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex.
  
  
• Mitullah, Winnie. 2004. A Review of Street Trade in Africa. Unpublished manuscript. Cambridge, MA : WIEGO.
• Mitullah, Winnie. 2003a. "Street Vending in African Cities: A Synthesis of Empirical Findings from Kenya , Cote D'Ivoire , Ghana , Zimbabwe , Uganda and South Africa". Background Case Study for World Development Report 2005: A Better Investment Climate for Everyone.
• Mitullah, Winnie. 2003b. "Street Trade in Kenya: The Contribution of Research in Policy Dialogue and Response." Paper for panel entitled "Urban Responses to Street Traders: A Comparative Perspective from India, Kenya, and South Africa" at the Urban Research Symposium on Urban Development for Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction, World Bank, Washington, D.C., December 2003.
  
  
• Pok, Cynthia. 2001. “La Medición del Sector Informal en Argentina." Background Paper for the Latin American Regional Workshop on Statistics in the Informal Economy, October 2001.
  
  
• Roever, Sally. 2006. "Street Trade in Latin America:
  Demographic Trends, Legal Issues, and Vending Organizations in Six Cities." A Review Commissioned by WIEGO.
  
  
  
• Sastry, N.S. 2001. "Surveys on Informal Sector: Objectives, Method of Data Collection, Adequacy of the Procedure and Survey Findings." Background Paper for the Latin American Regional Workshop on Statistics in the Informal Economy, October 2001.
  
  
• Singh, Navsharan. 2000. “Situating Homebased Work in the Webs of Macrospace.” Background Paper for South Asia Regional Policy Workshop on Home-Based Work, September 2000.
  
  
• Suarez Rivera, Alvaro. 2001. "Reporte de Participante Naciónal – Colombia." Background Paper for the Latin American Regional Workshop on Statistics in the Informal Economy, October 2001.
  
  
• Unni, Jeemol. 2002. “Size, Contribution and Characteristics of Informal Employment in India.” Country Case Study: India. Background paper for Women and Men in Informal Employment: A Statistical Picture.
  
  
• Unni, Jeemol. 2000a. “Women in the Informal Sector in South Asia: A Review of Evidence.” Background Paper for Regional Policy Workshop on Home-Based Work, September 2000.
  
  
• Unni, Jeemol. 2000b.“Gender and Informality in the Labour Market in South Asia.” Background Paper for South Asia Regional Policy Workshop on Home-Based Work, September 2000.
  
  
• Unni, Jeemol and Uma Rani. 2000. “Women in Informal Employment in India.” Paper Presented at Conference of International Association for Feminist Economics, August 2000.
  
  
• Valodia, Imraan. 2000. “Economic Policy and Women’s Work in South Africa: Overlooking Atypical Work?” Paper Presented at Conference of International Association for Feminist Economics, August 2000.
  
  
• Vaux, Tony and Francie Lund. 2003. “Working Women and Security: SEWA’s Response to Crisis”, Journal of Human Development, Vol. 4, No. 2.
  
  
• Villarroel Hurtado, Hector Francisco. 2001. "La Medición de la Informalidad en Venezuela.” Background Paper for the Latin American Regional Workshop on Statistics in the Informal Economy, October 2001.