Lin Lean Lim is program manager for the International Programme on More and Better Jobs for Women, Employment, and Training Department, ILO.
"This book is well-researched and rigorous study of an underground economic area, that makes an invaluable contribution to our knowledge of The Sex Sector, and its "contribution" to growth and well being. I challenge academics to use it as a teaching resource and an industry study, to venture into more difficult case study material, and to reflect on the adequacy of economic models to deal with such large economic sectors when they raise such moral questions." International Journal of Social Economics, Australia, Vol. 27, 2000 "There is a wealth of data demonstrating the sector's increasingly complex and significant contribution to each of the national economies. In sum, Lim's volume is an essential source book and a vital reminder to students of the value of empirically grounded social analysis It is also engaged with the practicalities of reform, for it was produced as an integral component of political action on the sex trade..." Work, Employment & Society, UK, Vol. 14, 2000
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