Workers in the informal economy
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- Can microcredit for women tackle poverty in the EU?
- ( Women in Development Europe , 2009)
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Women and food security
- ( R. Mehra;M. H. Rojas / International Center for Research on Women, USA , 2009)
- The steep increase in global food prices has added nearly 100 million people to the numbers who are chronically hungry, pushing the world total to nearly 1 billion people. Amid a global financial cris...
- Work and family in Latin America and the Caribbean
- ( International Labour Organization , 2009)
- For most of the 20th century, productive and reproductive work were organised according to rigid gender roles that have become inappropriate in today’s world. As a result, the interplay between ...
What happens to families when a member of the household migrates?
- ( Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex , 2009)
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The study of the difficulties faced by those who stay behind when a member of their household migrates temporarily are under-researched in migration studies. The aim of this briefing is to summaris...
- Scaling up measures to eliminate sex discrimination in the world of work
- ( International Labour Organization , 2009)
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The current financial crisis will impact heavily on both women’s and men’s efforts to find and keep decent work. This report makes the case for scaling up measures to eliminate sex disc...
- Designing flexible pensions systems to encompass more workers
- ( Y. Hu;F. Stewart / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development , 2009)
- Pension reform around the world in recent decades has focused mainly on the formal sector. Consequently, many of those working in the informal sector have been left out of structured pension arrangeme...
Can women be included in mining operations?
- ( N. Africa / International Finance Corporation , 2008)
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Mining has not always had good press in the development arena, due to a history of inadequate environmental and social governance. This short paper argues that there is enormous opportunity to be h...
- A gendered analysis of labour standards and CSR
- ( A.K. Franck / Women in Development Europe , 2008)
- This paper discusses the gendered nature of measures such as international labour standards, decent work approach and corporate social responsibility, and highlights its implications for women workers...
- Women and men in the Czech labour market
- ( V Kuchařová;S Jurajda;D. Münich / Gender Studies, o.p.s. , 2007)
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This document provides the results of three studies concerning the position of women and men in the Czech labour market. The first paper is a summary of qualitative and quantitative studies find ou...
- Challenging gender roles in small scale mining
- ( International Institute for Labour Studies, ILO , 2007)
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In the small-scale mining industry little is understood about the roles and activities of girls and the effect that this has on their lives and livelihoods. The issue of girl child labour in mining...
