Examines the working conditions of rural migrant workers in China. The paper first describes the increase in the number of migrants, from an estimated 30 million in 1989 to about 130 million in 2006. It then provides some descriptive statistics on the regions of origin of migrants, their...

Describes the effect of HIV/AIDS on East African society and makes recommendations for actions to be taken and research to be carried out.

Comprises seven case studies taken from a larger project on rural labour markets and employment policies. Examines how rural labour markets function and the complex factors that condition their outcomes.

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the experience of rural animators in animating rural development processes based on the popular participation of poverty-stricken rural workers in Sri Lanka - analyses the participatory rural Animation processes and role of the animators; describes their...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Comparison of agrarian structure and labour market mechanisms in Indonesia (Java) and Bangladesh - discusses social controls, labour relations and wage differentials affecting sharecroppers and landless rural workers, the position of rural area Elite, and the need to take...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the effects of petroleum exports and agrarian reform on rural area labour markets in the 1970s in Ecuador - discusses agrarian structure, land tenure, absorption of family labour in family farms and agricultural employment across farm size categories, rural...

Feasibility study for self help basic housing projects (brick-making "technological package" for low- cost residential construction) in the Philippines. Based on a 1979 sample survey of 100 peasant farmers and landless rural workers in two villages, discusses occupations, living conditions,...