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Policy Brief: Women in the informal economy
UNU’s latest policy brief focuses on female workers and entrepreneurs in the global informal economy. The paper looks into a range of governance experiments, covering both top-down and bottom-up initiatives, and considers ways to improve the sustainability of women-owned businesses. From Latin America to Sub-Saharan Africa, the authors find that many top-down actions are only effective in gender-neutral development programmes. They also conclude that successful women role models are often the best agents for sweeping change. The brief complements an earlier working paper, which can also be downloaded below.
See: http://www.merit.unu.edu/permalink.php?id=899

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