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Social Finance Working Paper #53: Microfinance and Child Labour
Social Finance Working Paper #54: Walking on a tightrope
Balancing MF financial sustainability and poverty orientation in Mali
Promoting employment-intensive growth in Sri Lanka: policy analysis of the manufacturing and service sectors
This paper examines the employment effect of growth in manufacturing sector industries in Sri Lanka covering a period of 17 years from 1990.
Sri Lanka’s working poor
This paper presents a profile of Sri Lanka's working poor in terms of stock and characteristics; attributes associated with the probability of being working poor, and the reasons why the employed poor earn too little to overcome poverty.
Youth employment
Promotion of decent work for plantation and rural youth in Sri Lanka
The project contributes to poverty reduction by helping rural youth enter the labour market. By developing the capacity of local staff and institutions, it also improves labour market and employment services. In addition, it works closely with...
Promoting job creation for young people in multinational enterprises and their supply chains: Sierra Leone
Employment Sector - Employment Report No. 8
Flyer for World of Work Report 2010
World of Work Report 2010. From one crisis to the next?
Published annually by the International Institute for Labour Studies - the research arm of the ILO - the 2010 edition of “World of Work Report” assesses the state of labour markets worldwide amid the economic crisis and analyses the economic and...
Promoting job creation for young people in multinational enterprises and their supply chains: Liberia
Employment Sector - Employment Report No. 7
The impact of the financial and economic crisis on Arab states: considerations on employment and social protection policy responses
This policy note is purely intended to provide an assessment of the employment and social protection impact, and to suggest appropriate policy responses.