Informal Women Workers in the Global South (eBook, ePUB)

Policies and Practices for the Formalisation of Women's Employment in Developing Economies
Redaktion: Ghosh, Jayati

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the varying trajectories of formalisation and their impact on women workers in five developing countries in Asia and Africa: India, Thailand, South Africa, Ghana and Morocco. It provides new evidence that will be applicable across a wide range of developing country contexts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000297010
• Artikelnr.: 60773546

Autorenporträt

Jayati Ghosh is Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA. She was previously Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. She has taught and researched for over three decades in areas of development economics, international economics, gender and macroeconomics. She has won several national and international awards for her research and advised governments at different levels, international organisations and social activist groups on economic policy

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction 2: Insecurity of women workers and the chimera of formality
in India 3: Growing informality and women's work in South Africa 4: Does
Formalisation Improve Women's Work Conditions? A Review of the Regulatory
Regime for Contract Farming and Domestic Trade in Ghana 5: Striving for
Formalization: Gender and Youth Aspects of Informal Employment in Morocco
6: The socio-economic complexities of formalisation of women's employment
in Thailand