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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.
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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.
Ocampo, Jose Antonio and Jomo K. S., eds. "Towards Full and Decent Employment." London and New York: Zed Books Limited and Hyderabad,
India: Orient Longman Private Limited, 2008

Chapters by Marty Chen, WIEGO International Director and Victor Tokman, WIEGO Board Member, CEPAL:

Chen, Martha Alter. “Rethinking the Informal Economy: Linkages with Formal Economy and the Formal Regulatory Environment”

Tokman, Victor. "Modernizing the Informal Sector"

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.

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