Books: economy

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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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• A guide to worker displacement: Some tools for reducing the impact on workers, communities and enterprises (update 2009) - Buy now
  19 June 2009 - The guide is primarily for use in industrialized and transition countries, and is aimed at policy makers, employers and workers in developing appropriate responses that promote worker retention and employment during the recession.
• 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)

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• Cooperating out of child labour. Harnessing the untapped potential of cooperatives and the cooperative movement to eliminate child labour - Buy now
  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.
• Combating forced labour. A handbook for employers and business - Buy now
  02 February 2009 - This handbook, addressed to a broad spectrum of business actors, provides practical tools and guidance material to enable employers to identify and prevent forced labour, and take remedial action where necessary.
• 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.
• Cross-border social dialogue and agreements: An emerging global industrial relations framework? - Buy now
  12 May 2008 - The book examines various facets of international framework agreements (IFAs), as one of numerous private initiatives that have emerged in the absence of a state-driven multilateral framework, in view of organising a common labour relations framework at cross-border level. ...
• Cooperatives in Asia. From reform to reconstruction - Buy now
  09 July 2001 - Comprises a collection of 16 papers divided into four parts covering the response of Asian cooperatives to external threats such as globalization and the Asian financial crisis; public policies on cooperative development; the relationships between primary cooperatives and the federal strucure; and cooperative support services.

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• Economic reform, social change and institutional perspectives in central and Eastern Europe (BIB 16) / Réformes économiques, évolution sociale, perspectives institutionnelles dans les pays d'Europe centrale et orientale (BIB 16) (Bi-lingual E/F) - Buy now
  29 May 1992 -
• Economic and social effects of multinational enterprises in export processing zones - Buy now
  13 September 1988 - The research confronts a number of widely held assumptions with the available facts and figures, and points to the possible evolution of export processing zones (EPZs) in the economies of newly industrializing countries. It envisages the emergence of the export processing country and a more open and competitive approach to industrial development.

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• 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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• 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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• Japanese multinationals in Australia: Employment policies and industrial relations, 1990-97 (MULTI 85) - Buy now
  26 May 1999 - Multinational Enterprises Programme, Working Paper No. 85

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• Labour and social trends in ASEAN 2008. Driving competitiveness and prosperity with decent work - Buy now
  15 February 2009 - This report looks at some of the most important current labour and social trends in the 10 ASEAN Member Countries. ...

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• Measuring the non-observed economy. A handbook - Buy now
  11 June 2002 -
• Managing the cooperative difference - Buy now
  18 April 2000 - A survey of the application of modern management practices in the cooperative context

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• Positive action: Reducing poverty through social dialogue. A training manual for trade unions - Buy now
  17 May 2005 -
• Policies for small enterprises. Creating the right environment for good jobs - Buy now
  06 February 2004 - Takes a critical look at the environment in which micro and small enterprises (MSEs) operate in a selection of developing countries, analysing their policies on MSE promotion, taxation, trade and finance, and their business and labour laws.
• Productivity management. A practical handbook - Buy now
  25 August 1998 -
• 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 -