ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the relationship between market economy, industrial structure and enterprise level choice of technology in Egypt - compares econometric models and industry level data from nine developing countries, and investigates the impact of industrial policy favouring...

Criticizes the standard international definition of unemployment as being too restrictive to measure accurately unemployment in labour- surplus economies. Using Indonesia as a basis, proposes a definition which is based on trends in real wages which aims to reflect the real extent of labour...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper discussing trade liberalization trade policies capable of promoting the integration of developing countries into the international economic system - comments on shortcomings of economic development associated with import substitution; examines the need to combine...

Studies the services provided by Islamic banks and considers measures to facilitate their role in the financing of small and medium enterprises in Africa.

Examines ways of measuring the impact of community and institutional variables on individual fertility.

Working paper introducing an econometric model to test the labour economics of child labour in Indian rural areas. Analyses impact of wage rates, land ownership, labour supply, employment opportunities, parental employment (esp. women workers and married women) and children labour force...

Describes various methodologies for measuring gender wage differentials and identifies their major advantages and weaknesses.