The Urban Informal Sector in Indonesia
Author: A. T. M. Nurul Amin
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 122
ISBN-13:
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The Urban Informal Sector in Asia
Author: S. V. Sethuraman
Publisher: International Labour Organization
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9789221082590
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn annotated bibliography which brings together about 240 recent titles on the urban informal sector in Asia, an area of high employment and rapid growth. Arranged thematically, it covers training, women, labour market, urban poverty, working conditions and economic growth.
Sustainable City Management
Author: Christian Obermayr
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-01-04
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 331949418X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book analyses the housing and governance policies of the city of Surakarta, in Indonesia. It addresses the question of whether Surakarta’s strategy for handling the city’s informal sector and marginal settlements shows evidence of sustainability and good governance. The book illustrates current trends in urban development and discussions on effective strategies for improving living conditions in slums on both a global and national scale. Using four main programs as examples, it presents a detailed overview of Surakarta’s housing policies regarding the poor. It critically evaluates the city’s relocation measures and shows that Surakarta’s city government has put into place an effective policy, reaching the poor by inclusive approaches. Influenced by global discussions and best practices, the programs examined are characterized by elements of good governance and Solo’s strategies have already been disseminated to other Indonesian cities. However, the book argues that deficits remain regarding participation and transparency. The work is based on Christian Obermayr's outstanding Master’s thesis, defended in 2013 at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.
Women and Men in the Informal Economy
Author:
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9789221281702
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis publication provides, for the first time, direct measures of informal employment inside and outside informal enterprises for 47 countries. It also presents statistics on the composition and contribution of the informal economy as well as on specific groups of urban informal workers.
The Long Shadow of Informality
Author: Franziska Ohnsorge
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2022-02-09
Total Pages: 397
ISBN-13: 1464817545
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA large percentage of workers and firms operate in the informal economy, outside the line of sight of governments in emerging market and developing economies. This may hold back the recovery in these economies from the deep recessions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic--unless governments adopt a broad set of policies to address the challenges of widespread informality. This study is the first comprehensive analysis of the extent of informality and its implications for a durable economic recovery and for long-term development. It finds that pervasive informality is associated with significantly weaker economic outcomes--including lower government resources to combat recessions, lower per capita incomes, greater poverty, less financial development, and weaker investment and productivity.
Informality Revisited
Author: William Francis Maloney
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author develops a view of the informal sector in developing countries primarily as an unregulated micro-entrepreneurial sector and not as a disadvantaged residual of segmented labor markets. Drawing on recent work from Latin America, he offers alternative explanations for many of the characteristics of the informal sector customarily regarded as evidence of its inferiority.
Indonesia
Author: Edimon Ginting
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
Published: 2018-02-01
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9292610791
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book focuses on Indonesia's most pressing labor market challenges and associated policy options to achieve higher and more inclusive economic growth. The challenges consist of creating jobs for and the skills in a youthful and increasingly better educated workforce, and raising the productivity of less-educated workers to meet the demands of the digital age. The book deals with a range of interrelated topics---the changing supply and demand for labor in relation to the shift of workers out of agriculture; urbanization and the growth of megacities; raising the quality of schooling for new jobs in the digital economy; and labor market policies to improve both labor standards and productivity.
Revisiting the Informal Sector
Author: Sarbajit Chaudhuri
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2009-10-15
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 1441911944
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides insight into the diverse aspects of the informal sector, its role in the context of unemployment, child labor, globalization and environment, as well as its multi-faceted interaction with the other sectors of the economy.
A Handbook on Using the Mixed Survey for Measuring Informal Employment and the Informal Sector
Author: Asian Development Bank
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
Published: 2011-03-01
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9290922672
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis handbook presents a cost-effective and reliable data collection strategy for measuring and analyzing informal employment and the informal sector. The cornerstone of this methodology is a version of the mixed survey that is anchored to the Labor Force Survey conducted regularly by developing countries. The Handbook draws from experience in the implementation of the mixed survey in Armenia, Bangladesh, and Indonesia under regional technical assistance 6430: Measuring the Informal Sector. It discusses viable methodologies and processes by which data collected from the mixed survey can be utilized to generate statistics on informal employment and the informal sector. The empirical evidence that will be produced can solidify the efforts on these topics, from research to policy making.
Social Protection for Informal Workers in Asia
Author: Sri Wening Handayani
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
Published: 2016-12-01
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 929257566X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis publication examines the need to expand social protection coverage of the informal sector to support working age productivity, reduce vulnerability, and improve economic opportunity. Case studies from Bangladesh, the People's Republic of China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Thailand offer suggestions to close social protection gaps and recommend policy solutions to create equitable and inclusive social protection programs for informal workers.
