Shows that the severe decline experienced by Tanzania in the early 1980s was a result of incompatible trade, exchange rate and monetary policies and delayed adjustment.

ILO pub-WEP pub-PREALC pub. Working paper on development policy, basic needs and poverty in Ecuador - discusses economic policy, and access to public expenditure; argues that income redistribution does not necessarily result from rural area infrastructure, health service, housing and educational...

This paper examines in an integrated manner the multiple dimensions of what has come to be called the “policy space” or “policy autonomy” of developing countries, i.e. their ability to calibrate national policies to local conditions and needs (especially with respect to their development...

Argues that strategies encouraging surplus extraction from agriculture, combined with stalled industrialisation constitute the root causes of persistent rural poverty. Suggests that an agriculture-first strategy is necessary not only for rural poverty alleviation, but also for successful...

Presents the findings emanating from a literature review and consultations with key stakeholders. Recommends to elaborate a clear child labour policy, preventive measures regarding the risk that youth have in contracting the HIV virus, and initiatives to conteract the poverty situation.

Case study prepared to analyse trends in regions with the highest concentration of tobacco employment in selected countries. Focuses on trends in tobacco production, consumption, and trade; the numbers of workers in the different sub-sectors, with emphasis on growing, processing and manufacturing;...

Based on a survey of 9,000 formal sector workers undertaken in 1990. Looks at the relationship between wage levels and educational levels (finding high returns to education), and wage levels and occupation.

Using data from a selection of ten countries in Asia and Africa, estimates the macro-economic costs of excluding people with disabilities from the world of work.