Publications
2015
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SCORE Training Brochure for Small and Medium Enterprises in Ghana
01 February 2015
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SCORE Training Brochure for Small and Medium Enterprises in the Tourism Sector
01 February 2015
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SCORE Training Brochure for Small and Medium Enterprises in the Garment Sector
01 February 2015
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COOP news update
26 January 2015
This issue of the COOP News includes articles on various events, projects, trainings and meetings related to the work of the ILO's COOP Unit between September and December, 2014.
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Prevention and elimination of bonded labour: the potential and limits of microfinance-led approaches
08 January 2015
This paper, authored by S. Premchander V. Prameela and M. Chidambaranathan of the Indian NGO SAMPARK, documents the learning processes of the NGOs and microfinance organizations that experimented with different approaches to microfinance and bonded labour. It highlights the importance of adopting a holistic and integrated approach, including social, economic, political and judicial interventions at individual, household, community and higher levels. In making the paper available to a wider audience, we hope to stimulate broader debate and experimentation on how microfinance can most effectively contribute to ending bonded labour.
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Impact Insurance Working Paper #38: The value of claims analysis in health microinsurance
05 January 2015
Most providers of health microinsurance (HMI) can do more to understand the illness and claims patterns of insured clients. The objective of this study is to demonstrate that analysing claims data equips HMI practitioners with valuable insights to improve the client value and viability of HMI programmes. The study performs a comparative analysis of three South Asian HMI programmes – run by VimoSEWA, Uplift Mutuals and Naya Jeevan. These providers share a common geographic region and offer broadly similar insurance for hospitalization services to low-income households.
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Social Finance Working Paper #59: Microfinance and enterprise’s formalisation
05 January 2015
An impact study of ESAF’s (India) microfinance innovation
2014
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Report on the pilot project towards developing statistical tools for measuring employment in the environmental sector and generating statistics on green jobs.
17 December 2014
This report provides information on the survey development, questionnaire design, concepts and definitions, methodology of data collection, as well as main findings of employment in the environmental sector and green jobs in one of the pilot countries: Albania.
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Campinas 2014 Social and Solidarity Economy Reader: Towards Inclusive and Sustainable Development
16 December 2014
This Reader, was prepared for the fourth edition of the ILO’s Academy on the Social and Solidarity Economy which was held in Campinas, Brazil in July 2014, which offered Participants the opportunity to share SSE experiences from different parts of the world and learn about the contribution made by the SSE to inclusive and sustainable development.
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Engaging informal women entrepreneurs in East Africa: Approaches to greater formality
16 December 2014
An ILO-WED Issue Brief
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Engaging men in women's economic empowerment and entrepreneurship development interventions
16 December 2014
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Engaging men in women's economic empowerment and entrepreneurship development interventions
16 December 2014
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Effectiveness of Entrepreneurship Development interventions on Women Entrepreneurs
16 December 2014
The present issue brief provides a synthesis of impact findings and identifies interventions which seem to have worked more effectively.
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Social and Solidarity Economy and South-South and Triangular Cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean: Contributions to Inclusive Sustainable Development
16 December 2014
Social and Solidarity Economy and South-South and Triangular Cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean: Contributions to Inclusive Sustainable Development
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Impact Insurance Research Paper #44: Understanding CBHI hospitalisation patterns
01 December 2014
Community-based health insurance has been associated with increased hospitalisation in low-income settings, but with limited analysis of the illnesses for which claims are submitted. A review of claims submitted to VimoSEWA, an inpatient insurance scheme in Gujarat, India, found that fever, diarrhoea and hysterectomy, the latter at a mean age of 37 years, were the leading reasons for claims by adult women. The paper compared the morbidity, outpatient treatment-seeking and hospitalisation patterns of VimoSEWA-insured women with uninsured women.
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Impact Insurance Working Paper #37: Achieving scale and efficiency in microinsurance through retail and banking correspondents
01 December 2014
Across the world, insurers have shifted away from traditional agents and brokers to partner with various alternative distribution channels – ranging from churches, trade unions and mobile network operators to banks, retailers and even civil service organizations - as a way of reaching critical mass at low cost. This study examines two of these channels – banking and retail correspondents – studying four examples in four countries.
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Fooled by randomisation: why RCTs might be the real ‘gold standard’ for private sector development
27 November 2014
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Good working conditions, good business?
27 November 2014
Assessing the construction value chain to support the advancement of working conditions in Zambia
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Good working conditions, good business?
27 November 2014
An analysis of Zambia's building construction market system
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Fooled by randomisation: why RCTs might be the real ‘gold standard’ for private sector development
27 November 2014
This is the lab’s first opinion piece to stimulate discussion and debate about a current ‘hot topic’ in results measurement.