ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the role of natural disasters, agrarian structures, agricultural policy (agricultural price) and economic development trends in recent food shortages in Africa South of Sahara - includes a comparison of food production and agricultural product export volume;...

The authors re-assess the informal sector in French-speaking Africa. They first look at the classical interpretations of how the informal sector is perceived in the context of development: as a result of international capitalism or as a correction to an unbalanced development. They situate the...

Analyses the nature of growth, economic policies and employment as well as its linkages in four Middle East and North African countries taking into account the pervasive effects of the global economic and financial crisis.

Investigates the role microfinance institutions (MFI) could play in the formalisation of the economy. Examines the effectiveness of the credit as a incentive to induce clients to formalise and reviews the advantage for a MFI to deal with more formal client.

Based on a synthesis of research in seven countries, considers how rural saving can be mobilised through co-operative type institutions to reinforce rural development in different politico-economic environments.