Foreward

A

Report

1.

Organisation of the meeting

2.

Technical sessions (I, II, III, IV, V )

3

Recommendations

4.

Photographs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)

B

Papers presented in the meeting

1.

The Informal Seuctor in the 1993 SNA, Rev. 1- Ivo Havinga and Carol Carson(PDF File)

2.

 Manual on Surveys of Informal Employment and Informal Sector - Ralf Hussmanns

3.

Redefining of Unorganized Sector in India  - G.Raveendran, S.V.R.Murthy and Ajaya Naik    

4.

Estimation of Informal Employment in India - G. Raveendran, S.V.R. Murthy and Ajaya Naik 

5.

Measurement of the contribution of informal sector/Informal employment to GDP in developing contries: some conceptual and methodological issues- Jacques Charmes

6.

Measuring Contribution of Informal Sector /Informal Employment to GDP in Malaysia: Development of Survey Instrument- Ahmad Jessree Kamaruddin and Noraliza Mohamad Ali 

7.

Informal Sector Contribution to GDP:A Study of the Forestry Sector- Kanchan Chopra

8.

Measuring Contribution of Informal Employment through Enterprise Surveys – A Basic Issue - Vishnu Kumar, Aloke Kar and Sanjay

9.

The Informal Economy in Small Island Developing States:
Case Study: Fiji Islands- Nilima Lal and Shiu Raj

10.

Informal Sector in the Indian System of National Accounts - Rajiv Sharma and Sunita Chitkara

11.

Estimation of Contribution of Informal

Sector to GDP- G.Raveendran

12.

Employment, Gender and Poverty:   A Note on Methods Used in the 2005 Progress of the World’s Women - James Heintz and Joann Vanek

13

Links among Employment in Informal Sector, Poverty, Vulnerability and Gender- N.S. Sastry

14

Informal Employment: Estimating Home-based and Street-based Workers in India - Jeemol Unni

15

On the Linkage between Employment in the Informal Sector and Poverty: The Indian Experience- G.C. Manna

16

A Comparative Study of the Quality of Employment in the Informal Sector in India- S. Mallick

17

Estimating and  Understanding Informal Employment Through Time Use Studies - Indira Hirway and Jacques Charmes 

18

Sampling Hurdles and data insufficiencies confronted in Informal Sector surveys- Subrata Dhar

19

Informal Employment in India – An attempt to measure through

Employment-Unemployment Survey of National Sample Survey Organisation - B.K. Giri, Asis Roy & Salil Kumar Mukhopadhyay

20

Dynamics in Informal Households:  A Note on Changes in Consumption Profiles of Workers during 1993-94 to 1999-00 - Anushree Sinha and Poonam Munjal

Annex. I   :  List of participants

Annex. II  :  Programme