All publications: responsible business conduct + multinational enterprises + trade + export processing zones + fair trade + free trade + trade liberalization + value chains + supply chains

Leaflet: Tripartite Declaration on Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy - Translating labour principles into practice

Background report - MULTI Forum 2007: 30th anniversary of the ILO’s Declaration on Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and...

The ILO will commemorate the anniversary with a number of events, including a special Forum to be held on 15-16 November, 2007. The Forum will draw prominent executives and labour representatives from around the world, and provide an extraordinary...

Working Paper No. 82 - Growth and Employment Dynamics in Botswana: A Case Study of Policy Coherence

This paper examines what is behind Botswana's spectacular economic success since gaining independence in 1966.

Working Paper No. 77 - Global Production Systems and Decent Work

This aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the challenges of enhancing decent work within global production systems, and contribute to developing a research agenda on this issue.

Working Paper No. 80 - Growth, Investment and Employment in Ghana

This paper examines the formulation of national policies including trade, exchange rate, monetary, fiscal and labour market policies and how they have contributed to growth and employment generation.

Working Paper No. 81 - Globalization, Industrial Revolutions in India and China and Labour Markets in Advanced Countries: Implications for...

This paper examines the impact on labour markets in advanced countries of the "current globalization" of China and India with the liberalized economy. This globalization takes place in the form of free trade, free capital movements and domestic...

Trade and employment: Challenges for policy research

On the basis of an overview of the existing academic literature, the study provides an impartial view of what can be said, and with what degree of confidence, on the relationship between trade and employment, an often contentious issue of public...

Business Training for Entrepreneurs in Vietnam

Working paper No. 1 "Freedom of association and collective bargaining in export processing zones: Role of the ILO supervisory mechanisms"

Discusses the principles of the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations and the Committee on Freedom of Association concerning the freedom of association and collective bargaining rights of workers in export...