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...

Reviews provisions in ILO standards that refer to finance, the financial sector as a whole, financial isntitutions, financial instruments and policies addressed to the financial sector.

Provides a practical tool for the design and implementation of sustainable microfinance interventions, with a particular focus on rural areas. Provides guidance on who to target, how to establish and maintain savings and lending schemes, what kind of training to provide, gender concerns and cost...

Studies the services provided by Islamic banks and considers measures to facilitate their role in the financing of small and medium enterprises in Africa.

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

Focuses on small guarantee mechanisms operated by nongovernmental organizations comprising voluntary organizations (PVOs) and self-help or member- controlled organizations (SHOs).

Analyses the factors which have contributed to the perpetuation of the bonded labour system in Nepal and suggests changes in policies and programmes to deal more effectively with the problem. Includes comments on the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No.29) and the Abolition of Forced Labour...

The survey of 53 microenterprises specialised in the production of metal doors and windows in the two major towns of the country highlights two common features: all have less than ten years of activity and concentrate in urban areas where the building industry is expanding. Legislation developed...