Publications

2009

1. The Effects of Foreign Direct Investment and Multinational Enterprises on the areas covered by the 1977 MNE Declaration of the ILO

   01 September 2009

   A Global Holistic Scan

2. Start Your Business (SYB)

   24 August 2009

3. Generate Your Business Idea (GYB)

   24 August 2009

4. Expand Your Business (EYB)

   24 August 2009

5. 

   Value chain development for decent work

   21 August 2009

   The current global economic crisis has rendered governments, employers and workers concerned about the effects on people, enterprises and employment. Prepared in the context of the Paris Declaration for AID Effectiveness, this guide systematically addresses all relevant aspects that value chain facilitators need to take into account.

6. 

   Making the strongest links: A practical guide to mainstreaming gender analysis in value chain development

   31 July 2009

   A new publication from the ILO provides groundbreaking methods for incorporating gender concerns into the different stages of value chain analysis and strengthening the links essential for gender equality and promoting sustainable pro-poor growth and development strategies.

7. Economic implications of labour and labour-related laws on MSEs: A quick review of the Latin American experience

   10 July 2009

   Employment Working Paper No. 31

8. 

   Training resource pack for agricultural cooperatives on the elimination of hazardous child labour (Set of 2 books)

   09 July 2009

   The goal of this resource kit is to raise awareness, help cooperative trainers to plan and run activities, and improve occupational safety and health conditions and promote the implementation of ILO Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182).

9. 

   Cooperating out of child labour. Harnessing the untapped potential of cooperatives and the cooperative movement to eliminate child labour

   08 July 2009

   This title has been produced as a call to action to the world cooperative movement to join hands in fighting child labour. Cooperatives and the cooperative movement have an important, but as yet unharnessed, role to play in the elimination of child labour worldwide.

10. ILO and Cooperatives - COOP NEWS No. 2, 2009 (Newsletter)

    01 July 2009

11. Rising food prices and their implications for employment, decent work and poverty reduction

    23 June 2009

    Employment Working Paper No. 30

12. Investing in the workforce: Social investors and international labour standards

    20 June 2009

    Employment Working Paper No. 29

13. South and South-East Asia Conference on Local Economic Development

    17 June 2009

    Knowledge sharing and the way forward - Conference Report - 16/17 June 2009

14. Promoting Responsible and Sustainable Enterprise-Level Practices at Times of Crisis : A Guide for Policy-Makers and Social Partners

    10 June 2009

15. Resilience of the Cooperative Business Model in Times of Crisis

    10 June 2009

16. Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises and the Global Economic Crisis: Impacts and Policy Responses

    10 June 2009

17. Youth employment : a global goal, a national challenge (update 2010)

    01 June 2009

18. Survey on the Implementation of the MNE Declaration in Ghana

    01 June 2009

    Sponsored by the ILO

19. Month of the Women Entrepreneur (MOWE) Guide

    01 June 2009

    WED Fact Sheet 9

20. Gender Sensitive Value Chain Analysis (GSVCA) Guide

    01 June 2009

    WED Fact Sheet 8