Books: poverty

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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.

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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.

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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).

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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 -
• Poverty, inequality, exclusion. New approaches to theory and practice (BIB 17) / Pauvretés, inégalités, exclusions. Renouveau des approches théoriques et des pratiques sociales (Bi-lingual E/F) - Buy now
  24 November 1993 -

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• Skills, productivity and employment growth. The case of Latin America - Buy now
  24 June 2008 - The aim of this study is to illustrate the relations between training and workers' skills, productivity and the growth of quality employment in societies in Latin America by means of an analysis of the existing information and case studies of four different countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru). A review of the activities of ...
• Social dialogue and poverty reduction strategies - Buy now
  09 March 2006 - Analyses the different experiences of the role of social dialogue in planning and implementation the poverty reduction strategy policies. Focuses on the experiences of countries such as Cambodia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Indonesia and Tanzania. ...
• Statistics on poverty and income distribution: An ILO compendium of data (2nd edition) - Buy now
  29 October 1998 - Presents a compilation of available data on the incidence of poverty and income distribution in developing, transitional and industrialized countries.
• Successes in anti-poverty - Buy now
  06 April 1998 - Explores features of successful policies and projects to reduce poverty.
• Social exclusion and anti-poverty policy: A debate (RS 110) - Buy now
  27 May 1997 - Includes a selection of presentations giving general perspectives on the subject, institutional issues in relation to the labour market, citizenship and the role of civil society, and the role of social actors, including trade unions, government and international agencies.
• Survey of living conditions in the metropolitan area of Sao Paulo (RS 101) - Buy now
  15 August 1994 - This survey is an interesting attempt at showing how the labour market is structured and how it participates in the creation and reproduction of poverty.

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• The International Labour Organization and the quest for social justice, 1919-2009 - Buy now
  16 March 2009 - The International Labour Organization was founded in 1919 in the belief that peace and social justice go hand in hand. This book explores key ideas that the ILO has championed and applied through the political and economic upheavals of the last 90 years. ...
• Tanzania Mainland. Social protection expenditure and performance review and social budget - Buy now
  18 February 2009 - This report takes into account demographic and macroeconomic information specific to mainland Tanzania and makes projections from a baseline year based on the two types of social protection schemes - contributory and non-contributory.
• The 'e' in Employment. ICT for rural income generation and poverty alleviation in India - Buy now
  27 January 2006 - Examines the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) on the rural poor in India.
• The work of giants - Buy now
  19 February 2002 - Focuses on the building of roads and infrastructure in the region of Angkor.
• The poverty agenda and the ILO. Issues for research and action. New approaches to poverty analysis and policy I - Buy now
  14 February 1995 - Focuses on the approach followed by the ILO with respect to poverty. Comprises a description and critical evaluation of the corresponding research and action programmes of the Organization, covering areas such as employment, social security, labour regulations and relations.
• The poverty agenda. Reducing poverty through labour market policies. New approaches to poverty analysis and policy II - Buy now
  14 February 1995 - Focuses on the relationship between labour market policies and poverty. Evaluates in particular the potential impact of the minimum wage, training and labour market regulation on the incidence of poverty.
• The poverty agenda. Trends and policy options. New approaches to poverty analysis and policy III - Buy now
  14 February 1995 - Explores poverty patterns and the design of policies to reduce poverty. Offers an assessment of the main trends in poverty in different regions of the world and sets this within the broader context of development patterns and the macro-economic environment. ...