Publications on tripartism and social dialogue
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DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
Transforming enterprises through diversity and inclusion. Country profiles.
06 April 2022
This report presents the findings from one of the most comprehensive studies on equality, diver-sity and inclusion conducted by the ILO during a period of immense disruption as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic was felt worldwide. It contributes new understanding and insights to better support enterprises in creating powerful and comprehensive change in eliminating all forms of discrimination within the workplace and promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. It builds on the wealth of existing research showing the critical role of D&I in the high performance of the workforce, businesses, economies and societies globally.
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DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
Transforming enterprises through diversity and inclusion. Executive Summary.
06 April 2022
This report presents the findings from one of the most comprehensive studies on equality, diver-sity and inclusion conducted by the ILO during a period of immense disruption as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic was felt worldwide. It contributes new understanding and insights to better support enterprises in creating powerful and comprehensive change in eliminating all forms of discrimination within the workplace and promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. It builds on the wealth of existing research showing the critical role of D&I in the high performance of the workforce, businesses, economies and societies globally.
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DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
Transforming enterprises through diversity and inclusion
06 April 2022
This report presents the findings from one of the most comprehensive studies on equality, diversity and inclusion conducted by the ILO during a period of immense disruption as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic was felt worldwide. It contributes new understanding and insights to better support enterprises in creating powerful and comprehensive change in eliminating all forms of discrimination within the workplace and promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. It builds on the wealth of existing research showing the critical role of D&I in the high performance of the workforce, businesses, economies and societies globally.
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Publication
Productivity growth, diversification and structural change in the Arab States
28 March 2022
The report aims at understanding the contours of a business environment conducive to productivity growth and sustainable enterprise development for decent job creation in selected Arab states. In line with the building forward better agenda with a human-centred approach, the report strives at identifying the elements of coherent and comprehensive policy frameworks to raise productivity for a swift economic and employment recovery.
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Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
DRIVERS OF STRONG BUSINESS PERFORMANCE. An analysis of SMEs in selected emerging economies.
01 December 2021
This evidence based report identifies micro and macro factors for SME's sucess on eight emerging-market economies: Egypt, Vietnam, Turkey, Colombia, Indonesia, Tunisia, Belarus, and Peru.
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Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL FACTORS FOR SME SUCCESS. What EBMOs should know to promote more competitive enterprises.
25 November 2021
The Covid-19 crisis revealed that many SMEs were not prepared to deal with such a crisis. The key to resilience will be to understand the main internal characteristics of successful SMEs and also to look at the external success factors associated with the global business environment in order to design and implement public policy aimed at promoting the creation of business development services or public policies in favour of SME development. With this research, the ILO Bureau for Employers' Activities aims to contribute to this reflection.
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PRODUCTIVITY
PRODUCTIVITY ENHANCEMENT AND SUSTAINABLE EMPLOYMENT IN MEXICO. Building forward better from the Pandemic and creating inclusive growth
17 November 2021
This evidence-based study seeks to identify key constraints to productivity growth, enterprise development, and sustainable employment hubs in an emerging-market economy, Mexico, stocked in a middle-income trap, facing regional and sectoral inequality, that has not yet managed to converge to high-income per capita levels despite a number of structural reforms over the last four decades.
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PRODUCTIVITY
TRENDS IN PRODUCTIVITY AND STRUCTURAL CHANGES. A comparative analysis of four emerging-market economies.
17 November 2021
This study undertaken by the Bureau for Employers' Activities of the ILO (ACT/EMP) is part of a research project to analyse the barriers to productivity growth, diversification and structural change in four selected emerging market economies Vietnam, Colombia, Turkey, and South Africa. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the design of coherent and comprehensive strategies, with a human-centred approach, to foster productivity and structural change, will be of utmost importance to accelerate the economic and employment recovery in the post-pandemic environment to build forward better.
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Informal economy
Angola: Study on the migration from the informal for formal economy
20 October 2021
This report produced by the Bureaux for Employers’ Activities (ACT/EMP) of the ILO with the Angolan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIA) is seeking to contribute to design a strategy to enable the gradual transition from the informal to the formal economy in Angola
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Highlights
Overview of ‘Employer and business membership organizations: Leading enterprises in times of the COVID-19 crisis’
25 January 2021
Employer and business membership organizations (EBMOs) across the globe have been at the forefront of helping the businesses they represent to weather the COVID 19 crisis. EBMOs around the world have stepped up to deliver crucial services and amplify the business voice amid the sheer enormity of the COVID-19 crisis.