Contents -- Abbreviations -- Foreword -- Executive Summary -- 1. Employment: The 'Missing Link' in the Poverty Debates -- The Globalisation-Growth-Poverty Debate -- The growth-poverty debate -- The globalisation-poverty debate -- Terms of the Debate -- What is poverty? -- What is globalisation? -- The 'Missing Link' in the Debate -- Conclusion -- 2. Informal Employment, Gender and Poverty -- The Informal Economy -- The informal workforce -- Discovery of the informal sector -- Debates about the informal sector -- Rethinking the informal economy -- Women and Men in the Informal Economy -- Developing countries -- Developed countries -- The Links Between Informal Employment, Poverty and Gender -- Informal employment and household poverty -- Earnings in the informal economy -- Poor women and the informal economy -- Gender Segmentation of the Informal Economy -- The framework -- Empirical findings -- Hidden Costs of Informal Employment -- Underemployment -- Seasonality of work -- Multiple activities -- Occupational health hazards -- The Global Horticulture Value Chain: An Illustrative Case Study -- Employment in the horticulture sector -- Horticulture workers and income poverty -- Gender Segmentation of the Informal Economy and Poverty -- 3. The Changing World of Work: Linking Economic Reforms-Gender-Poverty -- Economic Reforms and Poverty -- Economic reforms -- Conceptual frameworks -- Types of evidence and analysis -- Trade and Employment -- Quantity of employment -- Terms and conditions of employment -- Illustrative cases -- The Changing Nature of Work -- The place of work -- Employment status -- The production system -- Conclusion -- 4. Decent Work for Informal Workers: Promising Strategies and Examples -- Goal 1: Promoting Opportunities -- Promoting employment-oriented growth -- Promoting a supportive environment.

Increasing market access and competitiveness -- Improving skills and technologies -- Goal 2: Securing Rights -- Securing rights of informal wage workers -- Securing rights of the self-employed -- Goal 3: Promoting Protection -- Promoting protection against common contingencies -- Promoting protection for migrant workers -- Goal 4: Promoting Voice -- Organising informal workers -- Promoting collective bargaining -- Building international alliances -- Supporting Strategy - Collecting Statistics on the Informal Economy -- Conclusion -- 5. Informal Employment and Gender: A Strategic Policy Approach -- Policy Perspective -- Alternative policy perspectives -- Informed and comprehensive policy perspective -- Policy Goals -- Specific goals -- Overarching goals -- Substantive Policy Areas -- Macroeconomic policies -- Regulatory environment -- Labour policies -- Social protection policies -- Labour statistics -- Other policy areas -- Key Actors -- Policy Process -- References -- Appendices -- 1 ILO Convention on Home Work, 1996 -- 2 Recommendations to Extend National Labour Legislation to Informal Women Workers in India -- 3 Draft Umbrella Legislation on Informal Sector Workers, India -- 4 Bellagio Declaration of Street Vendors, 1995.