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...

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...

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...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper, comparison of the effects of trade and external debt on employment and income distribution in Ghana and Nigeria, 1970-1986 - examines economic growth trends in agricultural production and manufacturing, export earnings, public expenditure and basic needs...

ILO pub-wep pub. WEP conference paper reviewing employment implications of trade relations between developed countries and developing countries in relation to North South dialogue - examines interdependence in terms of economic growth, standard of living and unemployment, studies future...

ILO pub-wep pub. WEP conference paper reviewing employment implications of trade relations between developed countries and developing countries in relation to North South dialogue - examines interdependence in terms of economic growth, standard of living and unemployment, studies future...

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.