Work

By United Nations on January 01, 2010

The Director of WIEGO’s Statistics Programme, Joann Vanek previously led the development of the programme on gender statistics at the United Nations and co-ordinated the production of the first three issues of The World’s Women: Trends and Statistics. Joann Vanek contributed several sections to Chapter 4: Work of the 2010 edition related to informal employment. The chapter is a good resource for the most recent statistics on employment, presented in a user-friendly format and includes a section on informal employment.

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