Examines the formulation of national policies including trade, exchange rates, monetary, fiscal and labour market policies and how they contribute to growth and employment generation. Covers mainly the period from 1984 to 2004.

ILO pub-WEP pub-PREALC pub. Working paper on development policy, basic needs and poverty in Ecuador - discusses economic policy, and access to public expenditure; argues that income redistribution does not necessarily result from rural area infrastructure, health service, housing and educational...

This paper examines in an integrated manner the multiple dimensions of what has come to be called the “policy space” or “policy autonomy” of developing countries, i.e. their ability to calibrate national policies to local conditions and needs (especially with respect to their development...

Argues that strategies encouraging surplus extraction from agriculture, combined with stalled industrialisation constitute the root causes of persistent rural poverty. Suggests that an agriculture-first strategy is necessary not only for rural poverty alleviation, but also for successful...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the impact of stabilization and adjustment policies (economic policy) on employment, Mexico, prospects for the 1980s - examines the transition from import substitution industrialization to an economic model based on export oriented industry, structural changes...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on econometric modelling of labour markets for human resources planning in Central America - describes macroeconomics economic models of Guatemala, Venezuela and Brazil covering employment, the informal sector, labour market segmentation and underemployment;...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on employment policies and economic policies in pursuit of structural change and stabilization in Yugoslavia - examines economic structures, inflation, external debt, ineffective resource allocation, underemployment, unemployment, regional disparity, shortcomings...