Using data from school-based surveys conducted with ILO/IPEC support in five countries, examines the impact of children's work on school attendance and educational performance of children.

Traces how stabilisation policies have affected economic development in general and the level of certain groups in particular.

Examines the role of skills in cluster development and how skills development can facilitate cluster development, in particular in developing countries.

The main focus of this paper is on how two indicators, status in employment and sectoral employment, which are standard ingredients of the economic development discourse and are both part of the ILO's set of Key Indicators of the Labour Market (KILM), are interlinked empirically and how they can...