Books: economic and social development

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• 2008 Labour Overview. Latin America and the Caribbean - Buy now
  01 July 2009 - This edition provides evidence of the effects of an unprecedented international crisis that has cast a shadow over the global economy and is reflected in the employment situation in the region. Employment will be a challenge in 2009. As ILO Director-General, Juan Somavia stated, "The ILO's message is realistic, not alarmist" with respect to this situation.

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• Action against child labour. IPEC highlights 2008 - Buy now
  08 July 2009 - This report is the mid-term implementation report of the International Labour Organization’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour for the biennium 2008-09.
• Asian decent work decade resource kit (incl. cd-rom) - Buy now
  03 February 2009 - The Resource Kit brings together the ILO's expertise, knowledge and tools as they relate to Decent Work and the goals of the Asian Decent Work Decade (2006-2015)
• ABC of women workers' rights and gender equality - Buy now
  29 October 2007 - This second-editioned publication presents important information relevant to women workers in entries on sexual harassment, women in development, the glass ceiling and many more. With an easy-to-follow, this book provides an essential tool raising awareness and legal literacy on gender equality issues.
• A fair globalization. The role of the ILO. Report of the Director-General on the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization (Report 92). - Buy now
  21 May 2004 - Explores how the ILO can develop a central recommendation of the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization to make decent work a global goal. ...
• A fair globalization: Creating opportunities for all - Buy now
  24 February 2004 - Using worldwide expertise, examines the various facets of globalization, the diversity of public perceptions of the process, and its implications for economic and social progress. Proposes a series of coordinated measures across a broad front to improve governance and accountability at both national and international levels. ...

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• Building rural roads - Buy now
  09 July 2009 - The purpose of this manual is to provide technical staff ranging from site supervisors to engineers with a technical reference which details commonly used work methods and best practices for constructing rural roads. ...

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• Cooperating out of poverty: The renaissance of the African cooperative movement - Buy now
  02 February 2009 - This book offers an objective analysis of the state of affairs of the cooperative sector in Africa since the liberalization of the economy in the early 1990s.
• Cooperative autonomy. The dialectic of State-NGOs relationship in developing countries (RS 100) - Buy now
  15 August 1994 - This report resurrects the argument that without active state involvement in the economy and polity, no efforts on the part of the market and civil society can generate the momentum necessary for broad-based development.
• Child labour. A guide to project design - Buy now
  11 February 1993 - Comments on the Minimum Age Convention (No. 138) and Recommendation (No. 146), 1973.

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• Fighting forced labour: The example of Brazil - Buy now
  08 September 2009 - Brazil has been successfully fighting forced labour since 1995, when a new inter-ministerial body was created to coordinate action against it. Government agencies, employers' and workers' organizations, civil society and others have participated in the struggle.

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• Growth, employment and poverty reduction in Indonesia - Buy now
  22 September 2009 - This timely study examines the impact of policies on growth, employment and poverty reduction in Indonesia, reviewing the periods both before and after the 1997 financial crisis and drawing important implications for today's policy-makers.
• Globalization, Flexibilization and Working Conditions in Asia and the Pacific - Buy now
  08 October 2008 - This unique study reviews employment conditions in Asia and the Pacific in the context of globalization and the increasing pressures towards flexibilization. It places a strong focus on the divergent experiences of individual workers regarding their employment conditions...

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• Health microinsurance schemes: Monitoring and evaluation guide. (Two-volume set) - Buy now
  21 August 2007 - This two-volume guide provides assitance for a process of monitoring and evaluating the microinsurance schemes. It provides managers a assisting tool during such process for their microinsurance schemes. It also allows stakeholders - both technical and financial - to evaluate the vialability and performance of such schemes.
• Health microinsurance schemes: Monitoring and evaluation guide. Volume 1: Methodology - Buy now
  21 August 2007 - This two-volume guide provides assitance for a process of monitoring and evaluating the microinsurance schemes. It provides managers a assisting tool during such process for their microinsurance schemes. It also allows stakeholders - both technical and financial - to evaluate the vialability and performance of such schemes.
• Health microinsurance schemes: Monitoring and evaluation guide. Volume 2: Practical indications - Buy now
  21 August 2007 - This two-volume guide provides assitance for a process of monitoring and evaluating the microinsurance schemes. It provides managers a assisting tool during such process for their microinsurance schemes. It also allows stakeholders - both technical and financial - to evaluate the vialability and performance of such schemes.

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• Indigenous and tribal peoples. An ethnic audit of selected poverty reduction strategy papers - Buy now
  20 September 2005 - Focuses, for selected countries around the world, on issues of inter-linkages between ethnicity, discrimination, poverty and development. Includes the text of ILO Convention on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples, 1989 (no. 169).
• ILO activities in Africa, 2000-2003. Report of the Director-General. Tenth African Regional Meeting Addis Ababa, December 2003. - [pdf 783 KB] - Buy now
  01 January 2003 - Describes (1) some of the development frameworks adopted by the international community and the African region in response to the social and economic challenges facing the continent, and (2) how the ILO has responded to the emerging development challenges and priorities in Africa through the implementation of relevant activities within the framework of Decent Work Agenda.

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• Key indicators of the labour market (Fifth edition) with interactive CD-ROM (Trilingual English/French/Spanish) - Buy now
  04 February 2008 - KILM provides a valuable, wide-ranging reference tool to meet the ever-increasing demand for timely, accurate and accessible information on the rapidly changing world of work. It includes all the basic statistics used to calculate 20 key labour market indicators allowing researchers to compare and contrast between economies and within regions across time. ...

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• Positive action: Reducing poverty through social dialogue. A training manual for trade unions - Buy now
  17 May 2005 -