Guidelines on policy measures and practices for improving informal sector productivity and its linkages with other sectors of the economy

Abstract

The recently convened World Summit for Social Development demonstrated that the issue of poverty had finally attracted the attention it deserved and was now going to be addressed by both the developed and the developing countries. The conference Concluded with an historic agreement, embodied in a series of commitments and action plains, to take concrete steps to alleviate poverty, reduce unemployment and social disintegration.