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Documentation of women's work in Nigeria: problems and solutions.

R, Pittin - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1982

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on data collecting problems regarding the income generating activities and economic role of Hausa Islamic women in Katsina, Nigeria - finds homemaker tasks and family household production to have been ignored or submerged in historical and current censuses, due to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010966939

The impact of transition and the Afghanistan crisis on employment and decent work concerns in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan

Pickup, Francine - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2003

Examines the employment situation in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, focusing on the effects of events in neighbouring Afghanistan. Highlights the impact of radical Islamic groups, drug production and trade, migration and refugee movements, trade restrictions and increased external...

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Female labour force participation in the hashemite kingdom of Jordan.

Gbs, Mujahid - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1982

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on woman worker labour force participation in Jordan - discusses occupational structure, analyses the impact of cultural factors, marital status, educational level, family size, husband's occupation, urbanization and rural migration, provides comparisons with...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010967122

Examination of the literature on jordanian women.

O, Dahhan - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1980

ILO pub-wep pub. Working paper comprising a literature survey of the social role of women in Jordan - discusses islamic influences on marriage, responsibilitys and decision making, woman worker employment, clan family structure and religious practice, presents folklore interpretations of female...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010967468

Philosophical and spiritual perspectives on decent work

Peccoud, Dominique - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2004

Reflects on the values behind the ILO's Decent Work Agenda and provides a forum for contributors from various humanistic, philosophical, spiritual and religious traditions to express their views on the significance of work at all levels of society, from the individual person to the global...

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Challenges of price stability, growth and employment in Bangladesh : role of the Bangladesh Bank

Muqtada, Muhammed - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2015

pursue a single mandate or dual/multiple mandates. It examines the Bangladesh Bank’s (BB) aspiration to adopt a multiple … growth”, and is seeking to model itself as a developmental central bank. According to an ILO content-analysis study of … objectives and missions of central banks, Bangladesh is cited among the very few countries where the central bank has an explicit …

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The role of central banks in meeting the development and employment challenges : the case of Mozambique

Chatani, Kazutoshi; Pedro, Oluwaseun Olufemi - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2014

The paper urges that Mozambique would need to develop a more competitive and inclusive financial system, address the failure of the market to make credit available for SMEs and farmers, and establish credit guarantee schemes to channel credit to priority sectors and disadvantaged groups.

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Monitoring guidelines for semi-formal financial institutions active in small enterprise finance.

B, Wesselink - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1996

Deals with unregulated but legal financial entities operating in the semi-formal financial sector, essentially membership-based self-help organizations and outside assistance-based nongovernmental organizations. Provides a framework of questions and indicators to form the basis for a monitoring...

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Impact of new information technology in the banking and insurance industries in Malaysia and Singapore.

Fong, Chan Onn - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1991

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

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Migrant worker remittances and microfinance in Bangladesh

Siddiqui, Tasneem; Abrar, Chowdhury R - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2003

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...

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