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Emerging Insight: Becoming a long-term ally for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises in Argentina

ILO to address the main challenges facing the world of work in the post-pandemic period at a new edition of the Sustainable Development...

Two events organized by the ILO will be part of the agenda of the sixth meeting of this Forum, and will highlight the current labor challenges and the strategies to be implemented to promote decent work and sustainable development.

Juan Brasesco, former COPRETI official

"Punitive strategies are not adequate for addressing child labour"

The former official of the Comisión Provincial para la Erradicación del Trabajo Infantil (COPRETI) of Buenos Aires puts into context the joint work with the project "Offside: ¡Marcando la cancha!" of ILO Argentina in the development of an...

Florencia Lance, from INTA Argentina

"If there is child labour, public policies are missing"

The head of the Red de Abordaje Institucional con Pueblos Indígenas of the Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA) talks about the construction of a joint agenda with the ILO for the prevention of child labor in rural areas.

Yaneth Dávila, rural producer of Florencio Varela

"Improving the economic conditions of rural women reduces the risk of child labour"

Yaneth Dávila is an agroecological family farmer who lives in Florencio Varela, province of Buenos Aires. She participated in a training course on financial education for the rural economy, organized by ILO Argentina and the Ministry of Labour of...

From Salta to Buenos Aires

ILO presents six stories to highlight the problem of child labour in the agricultural sector

Lead by the ILO Country Office for Argentina's project "Offside: ¡Marcando la cancha!", these testimonies showcase diverse experiences related to the efforts to prevent and eradicate child and adolescent labour in rural areas of Argentina.

Social Finance Brief: Suramericana Argentina

Suramericana is a company of Colombian origin with more than 70 years of experience in the Latin American insurance market. This Social Finance Brief describes Suramericana's work on providing insurance to micro, small and medium enterprises in...

Participation and employment in seven developing economies: An age-period-cohort analysis

This paper aims at comparing various characteristics of labour force participation and employment, either formal or informal, for both men and women in several emerging or developing economies of different regions using pseudo panels and the...

ILO Working paper 86

Negotiations by workers in the informal economy

This paper provides empirical evidence from Africa, Asia and the Americas on negotiations and collective bargaining by workers in the informal economy.

The recovery of a business in the culture sector in an Argentinian mountain valley

Employment Situation in Latin America and the Caribbean (Number 27): Labour productivity in Latin America

This edition of the Employment Situation in Latin America and the Caribbean report, jointly prepared twice-yearly by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the International Labour Organization (ILO), the...

ILO Working paper 83

Labour protests during the pandemic : The case of hospital and retail workers in 90 countries

With a novel methodology searching news events from world’s largest news agencies via the online GDELT project, this report documents protest of key workers against their working conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic in 90 countries.

Eighth report: Representation alleging non-observance by Argentina of the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169)

The Ministry of Labour of Argentina promotes strategies for green jobs and just transition

Throught the UN Partnership Action on Green Economy, the ILO has worked closely with the Ministry of Labour of Argentina in supporting green jobs and a just transition.

Social Finance Brief: Pacífico Seguros

Pacífico Seguros is Peru’s largest insurer in terms of premiums collected and second largest in terms of people insured. In this Social Finance Brief, we explore "Protected Business", an insurance product designed by Pacífico to cover the main risks...

La negociación colectiva y el comportamiento productivo de las empresas industriales en Argentina

ILO Voices | Care economy

I am not a madman, I am an early childhood teacher

Federico Trotta has overcome prejudice and stigma to become an early childhood teacher in Buenos Aires, Argentina – a profession that many believe is a “feminine” career.

Argentina advances towards a national sustainable construction plan for a Just Transition

Within the framework of the ILO PAGE Project, a Labour Adaptation Plan for the Construction Sector in Argentina has been developed together with the social partners, aimed at identifying concrete strategies for advancing towards an inclusive...

ILO Voices | Tourism

An indigenous entrepreneur in tune with Mother Earth

After successfully reclaiming her people’s territory in Quebrada de Humahuaca, Northern Argentina, Celestina Ábalos turned to tourism to share and promote her indigenous culture. ILO entrepreneurship training during the COVID-19 pandemic helped her...

Social Finance Brief: Insurance for MSMEs in Mexico

The ILO’s Impact Insurance Facility has been collaborating with the Mexican Association of Insurance Institutions to build inclusive insurance markets for excluded persons and for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in the country. This...