Regional workshop on informal sector surveys in the Caribbean subregion
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Regional workshop on informal sector surveys in the Caribbean subregion
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The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean, with support from the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the Central Statistics Office in Saint Lucia, convened a two-day Data Dissemination Workshop on the Informal Sector and Informal Employment on 12 -13 October 2009 in Castries, Saint Lucia. This workshop was one of the culminating activities of the Interregional Project on the Measurement of the Informal Sector and Informal Employment being conducted in the Caribbean subregion. The workshop served as a forum for presenting the findings of the survey of the informal sector which was carried out in Saint Lucia over the period April 2008 to January 2009.
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Introduction.-- Agenda Item 1: Opening remarks.--Agenda Item 2: Background and objectives.--Agenda Item 3: Elements of the Informal Sector Survey.--Agenda Item 4: Elements of the Informal Sector Survey.--Agenda Item 5: Country presentations on current methods used to adjust the National Accounts Statistics for the contribution of the informal sector to GDP.--Agenda Item 6: Concepts and methodologies used to estimate the value added by the informal sector.--Agenda Item 7: Using survey data to estimate the informal sector’s contribution to GDP.--Agenda Item 8: Informal sector surveys – the way forward.--Agenda Item 9: Closure.