Comprises seven case studies taken from a larger project on rural labour markets and employment policies. Examines how rural labour markets function and the complex factors that condition their outcomes.

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the role of natural disasters, agrarian structures, agricultural policy (agricultural price) and economic development trends in recent food shortages in Africa South of Sahara - includes a comparison of food production and agricultural product export volume;...

The authors re-assess the informal sector in French-speaking Africa. They first look at the classical interpretations of how the informal sector is perceived in the context of development: as a result of international capitalism or as a correction to an unbalanced development. They situate the...

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...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper testing a hypothesis relating to the impact of economic growth on economic structure and income distribution in developing countries - applying a simulation economic model to five different development policies, shows the negative impact of industrialization and...

Reviews the debate and the frameworks in terms of the concept of catching up, the policy issues raised, and the principles guiding the design of industrial policies. Provides a comparative analysis between the growth perspective and the institutional economics approach, draws lessons for the...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the interaction between population growth, income distribution and poverty, and its impact on economic development - presents an economic model for comparison of economic growth, public investment, literacy rates, and other variables affecting low income groups....

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper presenting findings of an Experiment on econometric modelling of the long term employment impact of disarmament - examines consequences for regional level economic growth and economic structure, world-wide employment creation, and income and consumption in...