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El mes pasado se reunieron en Nairobi 700 personas en la Segunda Sesión del Comité Preparatorio de la Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre la Vivienda y el Desarrollo Urbano Sostenible (PrepCom2) en Nairobi; un importante evento en una serie de eventos que culminarán con la Conferencia Hábitat III en Quito, Ecuador, en octubre de 2016. De esa gran delegación, sin embargo, sólo una pequeña minoría eran líderes comunitarios.

Last month in Nairobi, 700 participants gathered at the Second Session of the Preparatory Committee of the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (PrepCom2)—an important event in a series that culminates in the Habitat III conference in Quito, Ecuador in October 2016. However, of the large delegation, only a small minority represented grassroots leaders.

The Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh in 2013 revealed the deathly factory conditions of garment workers, many of whom were stitching for the world's biggest brands. While the disaster has raised awareness -- and even moved forward promising steps to improve working conditions -- there is yet a another, even more invisible, garment-industry workforce, made up up mostly poor women, who are laboring out of their homes with almost no protection and no security.

Myths abound in the field of informal employment statistics—from ‘there are none’ to ‘they don’t tell us anything.’ Here are answers to some of the most common ones.

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Myth #1: There are no statistics on the informal economy.

Los mitos abundan en el campo de las estadísticas de la economía informal y van desde nociones de “no hay estadística alguna”, hasta  “las estadísticas no nos dicen nada”. Aquí hay respuestas para los mitos más comunes.

Mito #1: No hay estadísticas sobre la economía informal