Analyses isues concerning the situation of women workers in the context of current economic reform, globalization, technological change, AIDS, environmental degradation and civil strife.

During the 1970s and early 1980s the ILO carried out a number of studies on the informal sector in large urban centres of developing countries, including Accra, Lome, Yaounde, Dakar and Kaolack. These studies failed to elaborate on the nature and extent of the relationship between the informal...