Publications

September 2008

1. ILO Terminology

   01 September 2008

2. Decent Work for All Newsletter, September 2008

   01 September 2008

   Quarterly newsletter of the ILO Subreional Office in Manila. This issue features articles on local economic development, tools for gender mainstreaming, trends and development in employment strategy, and deep sea fishing companies fight against child labour.

3. ILO Jakarta Newsletter, September 2008

   01 September 2008

   Quarterly newsletter of the ILO Jakarta Office. This issue features articles on tackling child labour, youth employment network, youth entrepreneur training, and Indonesia's social security system.

August 2008

1. List of library accessions: August 2008

   29 August 2008

   This List of Library Accessions is produced by the ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific. It consists of new materials available in its collection and data base which come from different sources such as ILO, NGOs, IGOs, institutions, other United Nations agencies, commercial publishers and individual experts.

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   Issues: August 2008

   01 August 2008

   The edition features an initiative to promote green jobs, a project to help alleviate poverty in Pakistan and the Philippines, and Indonesia's labour migration reform.

July 2008

1. 10 steps for a safer & health workplace

   01 July 2008

   Contains 10 steps for a safer & health workplace.

2. Controlling irregular migration: the Malaysian experience

   01 July 2008

   Examines Malaysia's experience in curbing irregular migration.

3. Rural-urban migration and policy responses in China: challenges and options

   01 July 2008

   Examines the recent history of rural-urban labour migration in China in the process of its rapid socioeconomic transformation.

4. SKILLS-AP Newsletter Issue 2, July 2008

   01 July 2008

   This edition highlights the new commitment on green skills and reports the update news on skills in the region, including the introduction of disability approach in SKILLS-AP.

5. Inter-state cooperation on labour migration: lessons learned from MOUs between Thailand and neighbouring countries

   01 July 2008

   This paper examines the experience of Thailand and her neighbouring countries, particularly Cambodia and Lao PDR, on bilateral employment agreements.

June 2008

1. Education, migration and child labour: all children are entitled to an education

   12 June 2008

   Opening speech on Child Labour Day-12 June 2008

2. Education: the right response to child labour

   08 June 2008

3. Freedom of association in practice: Lessons learned (Global Report under the follow-up to the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. Report of the Director-General, 2008)

   02 June 2008

   This Global Report, like the two earlier GlobalReports on the same subject published in 2000 and 2004, is based on the premise that achieving the ILO’s goal of decent work for all women and men in conditions of freedom, equity, security and human dignity is only possible if they can have a say in what this means for them. Freedom of association and the right to organize and bargain collectively are fundamental human rights, the exercise of which has a major impact on work and living conditions, as well as on the development and progress of economic and social systems.

4. Labour market scenarios for the Asian Decent Work Decade in the Pacific Island countries

   01 June 2008

   This paper presents key trends in the economies and labour markets of Pacific island countries and the main issues facing policy-makers in promoting decent and productive employment in these economies. It presents past trends and projections in population growth and in working-age cohorts, in formal employment, in the labour force and labour force participation rates, and in national income, and identifies the economic activities that are most likely to provide growth in formal employment in the countries. It also looks at the role being played by migration and overseas employment of Pacific islanders.

5. The gender wage gap in Bangladesh

   01 June 2008

   This study presents the first comprehensive estimates of the role that gender plays in determining hourly wage gaps between women and men in Bangladesh, by examining gender wage gaps across different industries, among workers with different levels of education and among workers operating across different sized establishments. The paper also provides the first quantitative estimates of the effects of industrial and occupational segregation on average wage rates for women and men in the country.

6. Recommended guidelines for migrant recruitment policy and practice in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region

   01 June 2008

   These recommended guidelines emphasise the importance of improving recruitment processes in order to encourage safe migration and reduce the potential vulnerability of migrant workers to labour exploitation, including the worst forms of child labour and human trafficking.

May 2008

1. 

   GET Ahead for women in enterprise training package and resource kit

   01 May 2008

   Targets women in poverty who want to start or are already engaged in small-scale business.

2. Pakistan employment trends 2008: youth

   01 May 2008

   Provides information and analysis focusing on young people. It presents a quantitative assessment of the realities of Pakistan’s youth labour market and identifies the challenges facing young people.

April 2008

1. Major skills challenges facing SKILLS-AP member countries in 2008 and strategies to address them: review of country reports presented for the ILO/SKILLS-AP/Korea Second Technical Meeting of the Regional Skills Network Partner Organizations in Asia and the Pacific, SIVAT, Incheon, Republic of Korea, 16-18 April 2008

   30 April 2008

   This report provides a summary of the responses from 27 ILO member States in Asia and the Pacific.

2. Strengthening Regional Skills Network through Partnerships in Asia and the Pacific: report of ILO/SKILLS-AP/Korea Second Technical Meeting of the Regional Skills Network Partner Organizations in Asia and the Pacific, SIVAT, Incheon, Republic of Korea, 16-18 April 2008

   30 April 2008

   This meeting was to review the progress made in the revitalization of the Regional Skills Network and to explore the ways and means to make it more effective as a mechanism for sharing knowledge and expertise with and between countries in the region.