Undertakes a content analysis of 2009 - 2010 IMF Article IV consultations for a sample of thirty low income and twenty middle income countries on fiscal adjustment, inflation targets, employment generation, poverty reduction and expansion of social protection.

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper (conference paper), short term econometric model estimating the impact of economic policy on employment and incomes in Peru in 1983 - calculates interaction between external debt, balance of payments, monetary policy, fiscal policy, price policy, supply and demand...

This paper highlights four national efforts towards greater coherence and coordination, ranging from more institutional cooperation in poverty reduction programmes to integrated macroeconomic and social protection policy responses to the global economic crisis. Each case study features lessons...

Traces how stabilisation policies have affected economic development in general and the level of certain groups in particular.

A consideration of urban artisans' production role in the socio- economic development in Mali precedes a discussion of different policy proposals for strengthening its potential. In 1983, this sector account for 21000 wage workers and 9000 apprentices. It provided goods and services for the...