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Publications and Reports on Poverty Issues

ILO Publications

• The Future of Urban Employment (1998)

• Shelter Provision and Employment Generation (1995)

• Statistics on Poverty and Income Distribution: An ILO compendium of data, H. Tabatabai

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ILO Working Papers

• Adapting macroeconomic, sectoral and targeted policies to benefit the poor and women: Study on Mongolia (1997)

• Botswana: "Gender Aspects of the labour intensive road programme", B. Austveg, T Nkwe and F. Ystehede, 1995.

• Burkina Faso: Appui au développement des programmes d'infrastructures utilisant au maximum des ressources locales - BKF/87/011. "Note sur les modalités de mise en place de la composante HIMO du PASECT". M. van Imschoot, BIT.

• Cambodia CMB/92/008: Labour-based infrastructure rehabilitation programme: Report of the evaluation mission - Part II. L. Guérin, ILO 1994.

• Current approaches and initiatives of the ILO Employment-Intensive Programme in Africa, a Background paper for the Thematic Evaluation. Maria Kuiper, ILO, Draft, December 1997.

• Economic Development that Lasts: Sustainability of economic development through irrigation projects: Case studies in Nepal and Tanzania. B. Martens, ILO 1988.

• Employment creation and poverty alleviation through labour-intensive works in least developed countries. J. Gaude and H. Watzlawick, in ILR, Vol. 131, no. 1. 1992

• Employment - Intensive Infrastructure Programmes: Labour Policies and Practices - Guide. ILO, David Tajgman and Jan de Veen, 1998.

• Evaluation of Hanna Nassif Community Based Urban Upgrading Project Phase I, Dar es Salaam; Könye, Arpad ; Lupala, John M. & Malombe, Joyce (1997)

• Fighting poverty by promoting employment and socio-economic rights at the grass- roots level. P. Garnier and J. Majeres. in ILR, Vol. 131, no. 1. 1992.

• From Want to Work: Job Creation for the Urban Poor (1993)

• Gender Issues in Poverty Alleviation and Employment Promotion

• Gender, Poverty and Employment: A Capacity-building Programme for Employment Promotion, Gender Equality and Poverty Eradication (forthcoming 1999) (translation into Spanish, Arabic and French foreseen for 1999).

• Gender, Poverty and Employment: Turning Capabilities into Entitlements (1995) (available in English and Spanish).

• Ghana GHA/84/008: Socio-economic impact study of feeder roads improvements using labour based techniques - Final report. Ghanexim, 1990.

• Ghana: EU/ILO Study on Structural Adjustment and Employment. Sept 1993. Chapter 2.3: Labour-based Works and the Construction Industry + Annex 4.

• Guinea GUI/87/014: Programme spécial de travaux publics HIMO: Impact socio-économique et perspectives. ILO, Geneva, 1990.

• The Impact of Recent Macroeconomic and Sectoral Changes on the Poor and Women in China, ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (1996)

• Implementation of Employment Programmes: Key issues and Options. J. Majeres, in "Employment For Poverty Reduction and Food Security" IFPRI 1995.

• An Independent Thematic Evaluation: ILO's Employment Intensive Programme. ILO - Michael Hopkins, February 1998.

• India - Tamil Nadu: Dharmapuri district, Thally Block SPWP:
  - A study on the Replicability of Block Based Approach to Poverty Alleviation. Government of Tamil Nadu / DANIDA / ILO, June 1994.
  - Rural Poverty Alleviation, The Thally Model. P.P. Singla, ILO November 1995.

• India - West-Bengal: Puralia SPWPs:
  - Bundwan SPWP project - Final project review. ILO Geneva, 1991.
  - A Study on the replicability of block based approach to poverty alleviation - Bundwan and Mambazar II Blocks. ILO 1995.
  - Tackling rural poverty in India: Bundwan shows the way. P.P. Singla, B.D. Ghosh ILO, 1989.

• JOBS FOR AFRICA - A Policy Framework for An Employment-Intensive Growth Strategy (1997)

• L'approche à Haute Intensité de Main d'Oeuvre (HIMO): Une Opportunité pour Madagascar. Essai de cadrage macro-économique. M. Razafindrakoto et F. Roubaud dans BIT-POLDEV: séries "Réflections sur le Développement" No. 18, 1997.

• Labour-Intensive Investment in Infrastructure: An entry point to employment generation and poverty alleviation. Jean Majeres, ILO Geneva (Paper presented at Oslo Conference, 10 October 1996).

• Labour-intensive public works for food security in Africa: past experience and future potential. J. von Braun, T. Tekluz and P. Webb in ILR, Vol. 131, no. 1. 1992.

• Les paysans et l'investissement-travail au Burundi et Rwanda. A Guichaoua BIT 1987

• Macroeconomic policies and poverty in Thailand (1997).

• Madagascar: MAG/89/017:
  - Programme cadre pour la dimension sociale du développement. Rapport final, 1994.
  - Etude d'auto évaluation auprès des béneficiaires des projects /SES. BIT, 1994.

• Mali: Project d'aménagement des ressources forestières dans le cercle de Kita.
  - "From social conflict towards social and economic participation in forest management; an example from Kita District, Mali". ILO, 1996.
  - "Approche contractuelle par le projet - Amenagement des Ressources Forestières dans le Cercle de Kita, Mali", Carmen Aalbers, BIT mars 1997.
  - Autoévaluation villageoise: rapport de mission décembre 1996 - janvier 1997. M-H. Pierret Rieucaud, BIT 1997.

• Manual on Urban Community Construction Contracts (1998)

• More Jobs for the Poorest - A Question of Choice. Employment - Intensive Technologies for Economic Development. ILO Erik Lyby, draft July 1997.

• Nepal: Employment Promotion Programme Mission (TSS-1) - Construction and Infrastructure. Kaj Thorndahl, report, ILO 1995.

• Nepal SPWP:
  - Employment Generation in irrigation works programmes. The impact of SPWP Nepal: the cases of two terrace irrigation projects. P. Jensen, ILO 1992.
  - "Irrigation - an entry point for poverty alleviation and mountain development", Experiences of the Dhaulagiri Irrigation Development Project, August 1996. ILO - MOWR/DOI - ICIMOD.
  - An impact study: Nepal SPWP accomplishments in irrigation through participatory processes. S.C. Lakhey. ILO WEP working paper 1989.

• Nigeria: NIR/90/014: Capacity Building and Support to Labour-based / Light Equipment supported Infrastructure Works Programme : Issues and Policy recommendations. S. Hertel, ILO Nov. 1994. Chapter 2. Problem Context.

• Of Nets and Assets: Effects and impacts of employment-intensive programmes - A review of ILO experience. ILO POLDEV - SETP No.1 Willem Keddeman, 1998.

• Politiques d'Investissement et Utilisation Intensive des Ressources Locales: Perspectives pour le Création d'Emplois et l'Economie de devises dans les Pays de la Zone CFA. E. Bynens, BIT, rapport provisoire, septembre 1994. (to be published).

• Public Services Franchising to the Informal Sector (1996)

• Public Works Programmes, a Strategy for Poverty Alleviation: the Gender Dimension. A. King Dejardin in "Issues in Development" No.10, ILO - POLDEV 1996.

• Rural development and labour-intensive schemes: Impact studies of some pilot programmes. J. Gaude, A. Guichaoua, B. Martens, S. Miller, ILR 126 (4) 1987.

• The Rural Informal Sector in Africa in Retrospect and Prospect: An Annotated Bibliography (1991)

• The Rural Informal Sector in Asia: Policies and Strategies (1995)

• Rural organisations and infrastructure projects: Social investment comes before material investments. Ph Egger in ILR, Vol. 131, no. 1. 1992.

• Rwanda: Etude comparée de l'efficacité économique des techniques HIMO et à haute intensité d'équipement pour la construction de routes secondaires. B Martens, BIT 90.

• Sénégal: "Travaux publics et emploi pour les jeunes travailleurs dans une économie sous ajustement. L'expérience de l'AGETIP." P. Egger, BIT Genève, 1992.

• Sierra Leone: SIL/88/009 and SIL/85/C03/CDF: An impact study of the rehabilitated Moyamba-Shenge Road. ILO/LIRWP - Field Survey Unit. 1994.

• Social exclusion and anti-poverty strategies. Research project on the patterns and causes of social exclusion and the design of policies to promote integration: A synthesis of findings. (1996) Geneva, IILS, (31 pp.).

• Social Funds: Employment and Gender Dimensions, Case Study 1, Bolivia; Contreras, Manuel (Geneva, ILO, 1997)

• Social Funds: Employment and Gender Dimensions, Case Study 2, Egypt; Kheir-El-Din, Hanaa (Geneva, ILO, 1997)

• Social Funds: Employment and Gender Dimensions, Case Study 3, Honduras; Cid del, José Rafael (Geneva, ILO, 1997)

• Social Funds: Employment and Gender Dimensions, Case Study 4, Madagascar; Raparson, Emilienne (Geneva, ILO, 1997)

• Social Funds: Employment and Gender Dimensions, Case Study 5, Mexico; Samaniego Breach, Norma (Geneva, ILO, 1997)

• Social Funds: Employment and Gender Dimensions, Case Study 6, Peru; APOYO (Geneva, ILO, 1997)

• Social Funds: Employment and Gender Dimensions, Case Study 7, Zambia; Milimo, John & Chibuye, Peggy (Geneva, ILO, 1997)

• Social Funds Employment and Gender Dimensions. Report on the Technical Brainstorming Workshop, 29 September to 1 October 1997; ILO (Geneva, 1998)

• Social Funds Revisited: An Overview with a particular focus on Employment and Gender Dimensions, Berar Awad, Azita (Geneva, ILO, 1997)

• Social Safety Nets: Employment and Gender Dimensions, A. Berar (Geneva, ILO, forthcoming in 1999)

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

• Sudan: Employment generation in water supply works programmes for people of arid areas in Sudan. J. Rice, ILO Geneva. 1992.

• Tanzania URT/87/011. A socio-economic study of Mto wa Mbu and of the ILO/ Tanzania Government irrigation and drainage project. P.L. Raikes. 1990.

• Tanzania: URT/91/03. Pemba Small Scale Irrigation Project. Project Evaluation - Main report. M. van Imschoot and M. Kuiper. 1993.

• Technology Choice: Man or Machines, including case studies from Lesotho and Zimbabwe. M. Lennartsson an D. Stiedl. ILO/ASIST, September 1995. (publish)

• Thailand: UNDP/THA/86/014: Labour-based Construction cum Rural self-Employment. Terminal technical report; Socio-economic impact. Chula Unisearch, Chulalongkorn University. 1992.

• Togo: Evaluation des mécanismes de l'élaboration des projects en programmes d'investissements publics dans le cadre d'une politique de résorption du chomage et de distribution de revenus. E. Bynens. Septembre/octobre 1997.

• Urban Employment Guidelines: Employment -Intensive Participatory Approaches for Infrastructure Investment (1998)

• The Urban Informal Sector in Asia: Policies and Strategies (1995)

• The Urban Informal Sector in Asia: An Annotated Bibliography (1992)

• Urban Poverty and the Informal Sector: A Critical Assessment of Current Strategies (1998)

• Working Paper on Franchising as an "Integrating" Approach to the Informal Sector: Some Preliminary Ideas (1996)

• Water as a source of employment. M. van Imschoot in ILR, Vol. 131, no. 1. 1992.

• Working Paper on Incorporating the Informal Sector into the Macroeconomic Information Base: Some Definitions and Conceptual Issues (1996)

• Zaire: ZAI/90/002: Project Pilote des Routes de Desserte. Etude d'impact - Document No. 10: Rapport d'étape. BCDI 1994.

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ILO Governing Body Documents

• Job creation programmes in the ILO
  (a) Employment generation for poverty reduction: The role of employment-intensive approaches in infrastructure investment programmes Governing Body Document, Geneva, November 1998

Other listings of poverty related documents

• The International Institute for Labour Studies list of papers on Poverty and social exclusion

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