wage informal employment, and scarcity of decent regular wage employment. The collection of essays discuss the labour … that skill development, inclusion of women, agricultural employment and social security need special focus. The articles … and employment. …

productivity, wages and poverty in India in the first quinquennuim of the 21st century. The period between 2000 and 2005 saw a … other recent analyses. Consistent with the trends in labour productivity and real wages, relative to the 1994-2000 period …

social interventions in 2005 by setting up ELA (Employment and Livelihood for Adolescents) Centres for the ELA microfinance …

borrowers and rouse an otherwise dormant credit market. We extend the theory to include correlated risk, and show that borrowers … risk-matching and intra-group diversification of risk using data on Thai microcredit borrowing groups. We propose a non …-parametric univariate methodology for assessing homogeneity of matching; structural multivariate analysis is carried out using Fox's (2008 …

Healthcare in developing countries is often unreliable and of poor quality, thus reducing individuals incentives to use …

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of economic policies on Philippine agricultural incentives from 1960 … up to 1992. Apart from economic policies affecting price incentives, cover public expenditures for agricultural support … services which influence agricultural incentives by raising productivity will also be covered. …