Explores how public actors, especially in home countries, link foreign direct investment (FDI) to labour and employment issues.

Examines ways in which human resources management can be used to improve the success of mergers and acquisitions, thereby reducing the social costs associated with their failure.

Examines corporate change and restructuring in the chemical industry and analyses how industrial relations in this sector can be improved in the interests of both decent work and greater productivity.

Focuses on the implications of corporate restructuring for employment and industrial relations, illustrated by case studies. Covers the period from 2005 to 2009.

Based on interviews with officers and workers in four banks and four insurance companies in each country.

Examines the role of financial institutions in transferring remittance and macro-economic background against which such transfers takes place; evaluates use of remittance, the characteristics and needs of remittance sending/receiving persons; explores the possible role of micro-finance institutions...