Jayati Ghosh is Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA. She was previously Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. She has taught and researched for over three decades in areas of development economics, international economics, gender and macroeconomics. She has won several national and international awards for her research and advised governments at different levels, international organisations and social activist groups on economic policy

• 1: Introduction 2: Insecurity of women workers and the chimera of formality in India 3: Growing informality and women’s work in South Africa 4: Does Formalisation Improve Women’s Work Conditions? A Review of the Regulatory Regime for Contract Farming and Domestic Trade in Ghana 5: Striving for Formalization: Gender and Youth Aspects of Informal Employment in Morocco 6: The socio-economic complexities of formalisation of women’s employment in Thailand

Jayati Ghosh is Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA. She was previously Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. She has taught and researched for over three decades in areas of development economics, international economics, gender and macroeconomics. She has won several national and international awards for her research and advised governments at different levels, international organisations and social activist groups on economic policy

• 1: Introduction 2: Insecurity of women workers and the chimera of formality in India 3: Growing informality and women’s work in South Africa 4: Does Formalisation Improve Women’s Work Conditions? A Review of the Regulatory Regime for Contract Farming and Domestic Trade in Ghana 5: Striving for Formalization: Gender and Youth Aspects of Informal Employment in Morocco 6: The socio-economic complexities of formalisation of women’s employment in Thailand

Jayati Ghosh is Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA. She was previously Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. She has taught and researched for over three decades in areas of development economics, international economics, gender and macroeconomics. She has won several national and international awards for her research and advised governments at different levels, international organisations and social activist groups on economic policy

• 1: Introduction 2: Insecurity of women workers and the chimera of formality in India 3: Growing informality and women’s work in South Africa 4: Does Formalisation Improve Women’s Work Conditions? A Review of the Regulatory Regime for Contract Farming and Domestic Trade in Ghana 5: Striving for Formalization: Gender and Youth Aspects of Informal Employment in Morocco 6: The socio-economic complexities of formalisation of women’s employment in Thailand