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Workshop on Interregional Cooperation on the Measurement of Informal Sector and Informal Employment
Bangkok, 3-4 December 2009
Last update: 21 April 2010

In the context of the United Nations Development Account Project "Interregional Cooperation on the Measurement of Informal Sector and Informal Employment", the Statistics Division of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), in collaboration with the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), organized a project concluding workshop. The workshop brought together implementing agencies and project countries including survey statisticians and national accountants from project countries who were directly involved in design, implementation and management of project activities; project implementers of the Regional Commissions (ESCAP, ESCWA, ECLAC); members of the project Steering Committee; as well as regional and international statistics development partners. The workshop aimed to review and evaluate the substantive and strategic processes, and the findings and results of the project, in order to consolidate lessons learned, and to identify areas and modalities for further work at the sub-regional, regional and inter-regional levels.

 
Workshop Report
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Annotated Agenda
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Workshop Contents
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Presentations
Session 2: Development Account Project “Interregional Cooperation on the measurement of Informal Sector and Informal Employment”: What were the Expected Results?
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Session 3: Overview of Project Evaluation Plan
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Session 4: Perspective of Project Partner Countries: How did the project objectives improve or change things in this area of work at the national level?
Mongolia (243KB) Saint Lucia (414KB)
Philippines Sri Lanka
 
Session 5: Improving the Measurement of the Informal Sector and Informal Employment: What was the added value of interregional cooperation?
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Session 6: Technical Session 1 - What recommendations can be made regarding the ‘1-2’ Survey approach for data collection on HUEM characteristics and estimation of informal sector GDP?  
Session 7: Technical Session 2 - What recommendations can be made regarding the ‘1-2’ Survey approach for estimating informal
employment, including informal sector employment?
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Session 9: How did we do? - A partial answer
Initial findings and recommendations
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