INSTRAW Library

Welcome to the INSTRAW LIBRARY, a compilation of around 600 publications produced by the former UN International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (UN-INSTRAW), which served as the leading UN institute devoted to research, training and knowledge management to achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment. INSTRAW, along with DAW, OSAGI and UNIFEM, came together in 2010 to establish the present UN Women.

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The Legacy of INSTRAW

In addition to the INSTRAW Library, the UN Women Training Centre presents the publication “The legacy of INSTRAW in promoting the rights of women. A historical record of the Institute between 1976 and 2010”, which intends to pay tribute to the story of INSTRAW as well as to the women’s movements and governments which supported it.

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ID: 1986-T-STA-LAC
Reference: Expert Group Meeting on Measurement of Women's Income and their Participation and Production in the Informal Sector. (1986). Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: INSTRAW.
Year: 1986
Description: This report presents the results and recommendations of an Expert Group which was convened by INSTRAW and the Statistical Office of the United Nations Secretariat, in cooperation with the Economics Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), 13-17 October 1988. It focuses on ways to provide an accurate measurement of womens contribution to the informal sector, within the framework of the United Nation System of National Accounts (SNA).
Instraw's Mandate: Training
Theme: Statistics, indicators and data
Keywords: System of National Accounts , Incomes , Informal sector
Geographic Area: Latin America and the Caribbean
Languages: English
Type of Product: Report
Disponibility: Printed
LinkToFile: PDF FILE