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Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC III)

Brussels, 14-20 May 2001

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Preface

I. The nature of the poverty problem in the least developed countries (LDCs)

II. Some special features of employment characteristics of the LDCs

III. The role of decent work for poverty reduction in LDCs

IV. Recent LDC experience in poverty reduction successes and failures

• IV.1 Sub-Saharan Africa
• IV.2 South Asia
• IV.3 Other LDCs

V. Employment policies for poverty reduction in LDCs

• V.1 A high rate of labour-absorbing growth
• V.2 Promoting the self-employment of the poor by converting them into productive entrepreneurs
• V.3 Increasing the productivity of the poor workers both in wage employment and in self-employment
• V.4 Ensuring favourable terms of exchange for the products of the poor’s labour
• V.5 Specially designed employment opportunities for the households with unusual and/or unfavourable labour endowment
• V.6 Design of protection of vulnerable workers
• V.7 Supply-side factors

VI . The role of the ILO: Decent work as a development agenda

• VI.1 Strengthening national capacity
• VI.2 Designing decent work strategies
• VI.3 Harnessing migration as a force for poverty reduction
• VI.4 Data on employment and poverty
• VI.5 Creating partnership for social progress

Annex

Table 1: Welfare, Growth and Poverty Indicators for the LDCs

Table 2: Employment and Productivity Indicators for LDCs