All publications: Financial and professional services
Research Department Working Paper n°33
Central bank communication: A quantitative assessment
This paper attempts to quantify the impact of central bank communication on macroeconomic variables using an purpose-built index.
Challenges and Opportunities of Teleworking for Workers and Employers in the ICTS and Financial Services Sectors
Issues Paper for the Global Dialogue Forum on the Challenges and Opportunities of Teleworking for Workers and Employers in the ICTS and Financial Services Sectors (Geneva, 24-26 October 2016)
Social Finance Working Paper #61: Labour unions and financial inclusion in South Africa
How labour unions facilitate the provision of financial services for their members
Monetary transmission in low-income countries: An overview
EMPLOYMENT Working Paper No. 181
Development central banking: A review of issues and experiences
EMPLOYMENT Working Paper No. 182
Challenges for the ECB in times of deflation
EMPLOYMENT Working Paper No. 183
Fiscal rules, growth and employment: A developing country perspective
EMPLOYMENT Working Paper No. 184
Promoting decent work across borders
Promoting decent work across borders: A project for migrant health professionals and skilled workers: Fact sheet
The International Labour Organization (ILO) with funding support from the European Union (EU), implemented a programme called "Promoting Decent Work across Borders: A Project for Migrant Health Professionals and Skilled Workers". The Project seeks...
Skills shortages and skills gaps in the Cambodian labour market: Evidence from employer skills needs survey
Handbook on Residential Property Prices Indices (RPPIs). 2013 edition
RPPIs are key statistics for economic and monetary policy-makers as well as for citizens and households across the world. Among their professional uses, they serve to monitor macroeconomic imbalances and the risk exposure of the financial sector.
Promoting decent work across borders
Promoting decent work across borders: A Philippine based project for migrant health professionals and skilled workers: Fact sheet
Migration trends have shown that skilled nurses and other health professionals while vital, are also globally scare. Demand for Filipino professional nurses given temporary work visas has been increasing since 1997 with the highest nurse deployment...
Resilience in a Downturn: The power of financial cooperatives
This report reviews the performance of financial cooperatives, looking in particular at the aftermath of the 2007-2008 crisis and the continuing long austerity period. It explains why financial cooperatives have proven to be more resilient pointing...
Migrant workers
Promoting decent work across borders: A Philippine based project for migrant health professionals and skilled workers (This project is...
The migration of healthcare professionals raises concerns from both source and host countries. Health professional mobility impacts the performance of health systems by changing the composition of health workforce and outcomes in both sending and...
Social Finance Working Paper #56: Strategies for unions to provide benefits and financial services to workers
Experiences in the United States
Private employment agencies in Morocco
Research paper on private employment agencies and temporary agency work in a country having ratified the Private Employment Agencies Convention, 1997 (No. 181), prepared for an ILO meeting on Private employment agencies in private services sectors,...
Responsible contracting: An approach aimed at improving social and labour practices in the property services sector
Research paper on the property services sector, and in particular on the provision of cleaning and security services, prepared as background for an ILO meeting on Private employment agencies in private services sectors, 18–19 October 2011.
Financial services - Social dialogue
Banking with climate change risk-vulnerable farmers
Climate Change Adaptation Project (CCAP) Caselette No. 3: A case on banking with climate change risk-vulnerable farmers: Project flyer
People's Bank of Caraga, Inc. isa-isang, sama-samang pag-unlad plus (ISAPA+): Working on farmers' huge potential for savings; protecting farmers and their families through insurance, integrating non-financial services for greater impact; employing...
Social Finance Working Paper #55: ROKIN Bank
The story of workers’ organizations that successfully promote financial inclusion
Employment, poverty and economic development in Madagascar: A macroeconomic framework
Employment Working Paper No. 58