Based on the Annual Survey of Industries two-digit level data for the years 1973-74 and 1993-1994, discusses the changing pattern of labour productivity, labour costs and total factor productivity.

Reviews proposals to address the leadership gap and to enhance the role of non-State actors in reforming economic and social governance. Comments on a project for the proliferation of networked governance.

ILO pub. Working paper on the indirect impact of multinational enterprises on employment in developing countries - considers the theoretical framework of mne's indirect repercussions on the economy of a host country, analyses effects of national income, improved competitiveness of counterpart...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on structural change in the UK, regarding technological change in private sector manufacturing - gives examples from the cotton industry, the domestic electronics industry and the motor vehicle industry; considers economic growth, productivity, competitiveness,...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper comprising a long term econometric model of economic growth in Japan from 1906 to 1940 - examines the effects of technological change, labour supply and demographic variables in a dualistic economy, and constitutes part of a WEP research project concerned with...

ILO pub. Article describing the new (1976) system of apprenticeship and in plant training in the engineering industry, aimed at preparing workers for rapid scientific and technological change in Czechoslovakia - discusses overspecialization and theoretical inadequacies of the old system,...

ILO pub. Working paper on the impact of multinational enterprises on technological change and employment creation, comprising a case study of a foreign subsidiary and a local firm in India - discusses theoretical issues, size of enterprise, research and development, innovations, backward and...

Based on a selection of economic, social and political variables, develops a typology of developing countries which can be used to study the impact of new technologies on them as well as to assess their capability to absorb new technologies.