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Sabina Dewan and Peter Peek, 2007
Happy K. Shiphambe, 2007
This paper examines what is behind Botswana's spectacular economic success since gaining independence in 1966.Ajit Singh, 2007
This paper examines the impact on labour markets in advanced countries of the "current globalization" of China and India with the liberalized economy. This globalization takes place in the form of free trade, free capital movements and domestic labour market flexibility.Ernest Aryeetey, William Baah-Boateng, 2007
This paper examines the formulation of national policies including trade, exchange rate, monetary, fiscal and labour market policies and how they have contributed to growth and employment generation.Andrés Solimano, 2007
This paper provides an overview of the Chilean economy and analyzes macroeconomic policies highighting the main features of fiscal, monetary, exchange rate and capital account policies. It also looks at patterns of labour market adjustment focusing on the behavior of employment and real wages.Stephanie Barrientos, 2007
This aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the challenges of enhancing decent work within global production systems, and contribute to developing a reasearch agenda on this issue.Igor Chernyshev, 2006
This paper draws on results from work on developing and testing decent work statistical indicators and methods of data collection. It includes also points on experience gained during the preparation and implementation of several surveys in Ukraine.Rolph van de Hoeven and Malte luebker, 2006
Yilmaz Akyuz, 2006
Richard Anker, 2005
Ludo Cuyvers and Daniel Van Den Bulcke, 2006
Tasneem Siddiqui, 2005
S.R. Osmani, 2006
This paper describes the growth-poverty nexus through which the forces of globalization have affected poverty, and focuses on the impact of globalisation on employment.David Kucera and Anne Chataigner, 2005
This paper describes how labour and social conditions fared in the face of the rapid economic growth and integration of Asia into global markets, focusing on the period since 1990 for 28 countries in the region. This paper also provides evidence bearing on widely discussed questions of policy import, such as how rapid economic growth and globalization affect workers.Maria Elena Valenzuela, 2005
This paper makes a valuable contribution to the debate over informality, which is seen alternatively as an opportunity for promising business start-ups and a poverty trap. With the spotlight on microenterprises, the authors’ insights reveal a more complex reality with important gender differences.Sophia Lawrence and Junko Ishikawa, 2005
This working paper discusses the main methodological considerations and some preliminary findings from social dialogue indicators, taking into account the variety of industrial relations systems. It documents the concepts and methods relating to the social dialogue indicators of trade union membership and collective bargaining coverage collected by the joint project during 2003 and 2004.Monique Zarka-Martres and Monique Guichard-Kelly, 2005
This paper presents a highly detailed and comprehensive method for constructing country profiles based on normative indicators as a tool for progress towards decent work. Country profiles on occupational safety and health (OSH) are available for a large number of countries.Catherine Vaillancourt-Laflamme, 2005
This paper, which forms part of a knowledge-sharing project on the informal economy, provides thought-provoking insights into the situation of Brazil workers in the context of urban Ecuador. Based on interviews, this paper examines ways to increase the voice and representation of informal economy actors as necessary steps in combating povertyAnne Chataigner, 2005
Gerry Rodgers, 2005
This paper explore some of the ways in which globalization might better serve social goals, drawing on the work of the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization. The author stresses the challenges posed by the disparity between countries in terms of levels of development and individuals in terms of levels of income.
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