Books and reports
January 2022
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Report
World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2022
17 January 2022
This ILO flagship report details the effects of the COVID-19 crisis on the world of work.
January 2017
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Flagship Report
World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2017
12 January 2017
This edition takes stock of the current global labour market situation, assessing the most recent employment developments and forecasting unemployment levels in developed, emerging and developing countries. It also focuses on trends in job quality, paying particular attention to working poverty and vulnerable employment.
May 2016
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Flagship report
World Employment and Social Outlook 2016: Transforming jobs to end poverty
19 May 2016
This edition of the WESO looks at poverty reduction and how it has been influenced by income inequality and the availability of quality jobs in developing and developed countries.
October 2011
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Publication
Key Indicators of the Labour Market (KILM). Seventh edition
14 October 2011
This valuable wide-ranging reference tool meets the ever-increasing demand for timely, accurate and accessible information on the rapidly changing world of work. The Key Indicators of the Labour Market (KILM) offers the general user with instant and uncomplicated access to data and analysis on the world's labour markets.
June 2011
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Publication
Towards Decent Work in Sub-Saharan Africa: Monitoring MDG Employment Indicators
23 June 2011
Drawing on broad regional labour market analyses and country case studies, this book demonstrates how the new MDG employment indicators can be used as a basis for improved labour market and poverty monitoring as well as improved employment policy development in sub-Saharan Africa.
January 2010
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Publication
Zanzibar. Social protection expenditure and performance review and social budget
14 January 2010
Zanzibar's lack of social protection has left it vulnerable during the current financial crisis and economic downturn, and basic social services are urgently required. The ILO-DFID funded project sets out the current situation of existing social transfers within Zanzibar's social protection system.
February 2009
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Publication
Tanzania Mainland. Social protection expenditure and performance review and social budget
18 February 2009
This report takes into account demographic and macroeconomic information specific to mainland Tanzania and makes projections from a baseline year based on the two types of social protection schemes - contributory and non-contributory.
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Publication
Zambia. Social protection expenditure and performance review and social budget
12 February 2009
This report, a review of the output of the first year's work of the project, examines the objective of extending social protection coverage in the country.
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Publication
Cooperating out of poverty: The renaissance of the African cooperative movement
02 February 2009
This book offers an objective analysis of the state of affairs of the cooperative sector in Africa since the liberalization of the economy in the early 1990s.
June 2008
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Publication
Skills, productivity and employment growth. The case of Latin America
24 June 2008
The aim of this study is to illustrate the relations between training and workers' skills, productivity and the growth of quality employment in societies in Latin America by means of an analysis of the existing information and case studies of four different countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru). A review of the activities of ...