Books and reports

December 2020

  1. Flagship report

    Global Wage Report 2020-21: Wages and minimum wages in the time of COVID-19

    02 December 2020

    This ILO flagship report examines the evolution of real wages around the world, giving a unique picture of wage trends globally and by region. The 2020-21 edition analyses the relationship of minimum wages and inequality, as well as the wage impacts of the COVID-19 crisis.

June 2014

  1. Publication

    Access to and Effects of Social Protection on Workers living with HIV and their Households

    30 June 2014

    This report highlights the challenges faced by workers living with HIV and their households in accessing social protection programmes, examines the effects of such programmes on their lives and makes evidence-based recommendations.

October 2011

  1. 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.

March 2006

  1. Publication

    Social dialogue and poverty reduction strategies

    09 March 2006

    Analyses the different experiences of the role of social dialogue in planning and implementation the poverty reduction strategy policies. Focuses on the experiences of countries such as Cambodia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Indonesia and Tanzania. Contains practical tools to help enable practitioners (principally but not only ILO constituents) to engage in poverty reduction dialogues and to better articulate the role of decent work in poverty reduction.

September 2005

  1. Publication

    Indigenous and tribal peoples. An ethnic audit of selected poverty reduction strategy papers

    20 September 2005

    Focuses, for selected countries around the world, on issues of inter-linkages between ethnicity, discrimination, poverty and development. Includes the text of ILO Convention on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples, 1989 (no. 169).

May 2005

  1. Publication

    Positive action: Reducing poverty through social dialogue. A training manual for trade unions

    17 May 2005

February 2002

  1. Publication

    The work of giants

    19 February 2002

    Focuses on the building of roads and infrastructure in the region of Angkor.

October 1998

  1. Publication

    Statistics on poverty and income distribution: An ILO compendium of data (2nd edition)

    29 October 1998

    Presents a compilation of available data on the incidence of poverty and income distribution in developing, transitional and industrialized countries.

April 1998

  1. Publication

    Successes in anti-poverty

    06 April 1998

    Explores features of successful policies and projects to reduce poverty.

May 1997

  1. Publication

    Social exclusion and anti-poverty policy: A debate (RS 110)

    27 May 1997

    Includes a selection of presentations giving general perspectives on the subject, institutional issues in relation to the labour market, citizenship and the role of civil society, and the role of social actors, including trade unions, government and international agencies.