Includes a list of relevant ILO Conventions.

Analyses examples of statistics on participation and expenditures on training by 26 countries out of 32 less-developed countries surveyed in 2002.

Includes a list of relevant ILO Conventions.

In recognition of the economic role of informal sector activities, identifies factors that influence the decision by microenterprises to conform or not to conform to national-level labour and tax obligations.

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...