This paper investigates the overlap between employment status and poverty, drawing particular attention to the working poor and precarious workers, and to the existence of multiple labor-related risks faced by specific groups. This analysis is undertaken using the Kyrgyz Poverty Monitoring...

In the past few years the informal sector in countries in transition has increasingly become the focus of research, public policy and the media. The term 'informal sector' has been used to describe an extremely wide spectrum of activities, which do not necessarily have much in common, such as...