May 2013

1. Publication

   South Africa SME Observatory: The state of youth entrepreneurship in the Free State

   21 May 2013

   A baseline study of entrepreneurial intentions and activity amongst young men and women

2. Publication

   Towards more inclusive employment policy making: Process and role of stakeholders in Indonesia, Nicaragua, Moldova and Uganda

   13 May 2013

   Employment Working Paper No. 137

3. 

   International Research Conference

   The link between good workplace practices and small enterprise performance

   13 May 2013

   The ILO brought together international experts, researchers and field practitioners to explore the impact of improvements in workplace practices in small and medium enterprises on SME performance in developing and transition economies.

4. 

   International Research Conference

   Improving working conditions in small and medium enterprises

   International experts, researchers and field practitioners are meeting at the ILO to discuss how investing in working conditions, safety and health and training can turn into increased competitiveness and performance and result in a win win scenario for small and medium enterprises in developing and transition economies.

April 2013

1. Document

   Agenda of the International Research Conference, 9-10 May 2013, Geneva, Switzerland

   23 April 2013

   Improved working conditions, safety and health, training and performance in SMEs: In search of a win-win scenario in developing and transition economies

2. ILO Research paper No. 5

   Trade and Employment in a Vertically Specialized World

   23 April 2013

   This paper decomposes the employment effects of a country’s trade into five components, specifically the labour content (1) in exports, (2) in imports, (3) in the import content of exports, (4) in the export content of imports, and (5) in intermediates contained in imports from a third country using the factor-content and input-output methods.

3. Publication

   "Is Small Still Beautiful?"

   16 April 2013

   Literature Review of Recent Empirical Evidence on the Contribution of SMEs to Employment Creation

4. Publication

   The enabling environment for sustainable enterprises in Malawi

   01 April 2013

   Employment Sector - Employment Report No. 20

March 2013

1. 

   Publication

   Resilience in a Downturn: The power of financial cooperatives

   20 March 2013

   This report reviews the performance of financial cooperatives, looking in particular at the aftermath of the 2007-2008 crisis and the continuing long austerity period. It explains why financial cooperatives have proven to be more resilient pointing to the specificities of the cooperative model of enterprise.

2. Multilateral system

   United Nations General Assembly, 67th Session (2012-2013): Resolutions of relevance to the work of the ILO

   13 March 2013