Working papers
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ILO Working paper 52
Greening the sector - Environmental initiatives and tools in the garment sector in Asia
01 March 2022
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ILO Working paper 51
Assessing the impact - Environmental impact assessment in the textile and garment sector in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia and Viet Nam
01 March 2022
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ILO Working paper 50
Crowdwork for young people: Risks and opportunities
21 February 2022
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ILO Working paper 49
How to strengthen informal apprenticeship systems for a better future of work?: Lessons learned from comparative analysis of country cases
22 February 2022
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ILO Working paper 48
Technological solutions to guaranteed wage payments of construction workers in China
15 February 2022
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ILO Working paper 44
Investing more in universal social protection. Filling the financing gap through domestic resource mobilization and international support and coordination
14 January 2022
Large and persistent gaps in social protection coverage, comprehensiveness and adequacy are linked to many barriers, including high levels of informality, institutional fragmentation of the social protection system and significant financing gaps for social protection in a context of limited fiscal space.
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ILO Working paper 43
Investing better in universal social protection. Applying international social security standards in social protection policy and financing
13 January 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed significant gaps in the coverage, comprehensiveness and adequacy of social protection systems worldwide. These gaps have jeopardized the health, incomes and jobs of billions of people. Closing these protection gaps, facilitating faster and inclusive socio-economic recovery and enhancing resilience against future shocks requires more investment in social protection.
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ILO Working paper 42
Social policy advice to countries from the International Monetary Fund during the COVID-19 crisis: Continuity and change
10 December 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused massive disruptions to the global economy and forced policymakers to respond to the newly created challenges. Many policy institutions have therefore had to rethink their established approaches and their usual policy responses.
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ILO Working paper 41
Supporting decent work and the transition towards formalization through technology-enhanced labour inspection
21 October 2021
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ILO Working paper 40
Financing human-centred COVID-19 recovery and decisive climate action worldwide: International cooperation’s twenty-first century moment of truth
07 October 2021
This Working Paper provides a concrete illustration of how the existing international financial architecture could be activated more fully to mobilize the large sums required to respond decisively to the “great divergence” in COVID-19 crisis recovery between advanced and developing countries as well as to the climate crisis.