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Poor health kills small businesses: Illness and microenterprise in South Africa

Li-Wei Chao, Mark Pauly, Helena Szrek, Nuno Sousa Pereira, Frances Bundred, Catherine Cross, Jeff Gow

Abstract: Small businesses contribute almost 50 percent of total employment and 30 percent of gross domestic product in South Africa, but the impact of poor health and AIDS on these businesses is poorly documented. Using three waves of longitudinal data from predominantly African neighborhoods in...

Promoting Women Workers’ Rights in African Horticulture: Overview of research into conditions on horticulture farms in Kenya, Zambia, Tanzania and Uganda

R. English

Introduction from the research paper: This document gives a brief summary of the research conducted into the situation of women workers in the African horticultural sector between 2005 and 2007. The research was conducted by local organisations in Kenya, Zambia, Tanzania and Uganda and has been...

Trabajo informal y acceso a la seguridad social

Berenice P. Ramírez López

México: Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica y la Organización Internacional; Mujeres en empleo informal, globalizando y organizando (WIEGO).

Is precarious employment more damaging to women’s health than men’s?

María Menéndeza, Joan Benachb, Carles Muntaner, Marcelo Amableb, Patricia O’Campod

New strategies for old-age income security in low income countries

Armando Barrientos

Linkages between statutory social security schemes and community-based social protection mechanisms: A promising new approach

Alain Coheur, Christian Jacquier, Valérie Schmitt-Diabaté, Jens Schremmer

ISSA Technical Report, No. 9

Changing the Paradigm in Social Security: From Fiscal Burden to Investing in People

Michael Cichon, Krzysztof Hagemejer, John Woodall

Global patterns of income and health: Facts, Interpretations and Policies

Angus Deaton

WIDER Annual Lecture 10

ILO Sub-Regional Office For East Asia Bangkok, Thailand: Informal Economy, Poverty and Employment Project 2004 – 2006

International Labour Organization (ILO)

This was one of the ILO’s major decent work projects, and included a focus on occupational health and safety particularly among home based workers. Several of the resources which came out of the project are related to OHS and informal work. This resource includes lists of reports, studies and tools...

Occupational and Environmental Health Network of India (OEHNI)

OEHNI

Proposed at the World Social Forum in 2004 and officially formed at a National Consultation meeting in 2006, OEHNI is a network of victims groups, trade unions, civil society groups and labour groups from all over India with an interest in improving working conditions for all workers in India. It...