INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANIZATION
	" Poverty anywhere is a threat to prosperity everywhere "

ILO Component of the UNDP funded Regional Poverty Alleviation Programme in Asia and the Pacific

(Coordinated by South Asia Multi-disciplinary Advisory Team (SAAT) and implemented jointly by SAAT, the East Asia Multi-disciplinary Advisory Team (EASMAT), and the South-East Asia and the Pacific Multi-disciplinary Advisory Team (SEAPAT))

Three major country studies on the impact of recent macroeconomic and sectoral changes on the poor and women:

1. The impact of recent macroeconomic and sectoral changes on the poor and women in China (1997)
2. Adapting macroeconomic, sectoral and targeted policies to benefit the poor and women: Study on Mongolia (1997)
3. Macroeconomic policies and poverty in Thailand (1997).

One major country study on the Impact of Micro-interventions on poverty:

• A study of the strategy and measures for poverty alleviation in rural China (1997)

These papers served as background papers for the Regional Tripartite Workshop on Policies for Poverty Alleviation, Bangkok, 5-7 February 1997.

No special evaluation has been carried out according to our knowledge.

The synthesis papers and the major conclusions were extensively debated by employers, workers, and the governments in the Tripartite Workshop and each group prepared summary reports based on group discussions. The papers and proceedings have been widely disseminated to constituents.

UN ESCAP has drawn upon these studies extensively for their chapter on "Growth and Equity" in the Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 1998.

There was close collaboration with the UNDP and UNCPS in the execution of this activity.

Piyasiri Wickramasekara,
Senior Specialist on Labour Market Policies
ILO/EASMAT
Bangkok
(662) 288-1794
wickramasekara@ilo.org

 
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