Discusses the effects of two recent economic crises, 1998-1999 and 2008-2009, on gender and racial inequalities in Brazil. Argues that the effects of these crises on qualitative aspects of employment such as wages and employment status have been unequally felt by women and blacks in Brazilian...

Provides an assessment of the economic and labour market impacts of the financial and economic crisis in Asia and the Pacific and reviews national policy responses to the crisis.

Provides information on short term changes in a number of labour market indicators at the sector-specific level, both in developing and developed economies.

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on economic recession, food security and structural change, Ghana, 1965-1983 - analyses the causes of decline in agricultural production, the role of agricultural price and consumer prices, the effects of migration and rural migration on food production, rural...