Focuses on country systems for regulating low-wage work.

Analyses which types of labour market flexibility and security combinations - "flexicurity" - are advantageous and who benefits.

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on problems, trends and policies with regard to emigration of migrant workers from developing countries to OECD countries (incl. Return migration) - constitutes part of a WEP research project on migration for employment. References and statistical tables.

Discusses the impact of structural adjustment measures on the quality and financing of education.

Examines the extent of emigration of skilled labour from developing countries to OECD countries. Reviews policy options for both sending and receiving countries to promote mutually beneficial brain circulation or exchanges.

Examines the use of social accounting matrices in development planning.

Provides a conceptual and normative framework for developing an appropriate policy response to some of the problems posed by the informal economy.

Critically reviews the macroeconomic experiences of the past three decades to argue the case against orthodox macroeconomics. Suggests that the prevailing orthodoxy in macroeconomics needs to give way to an alternative policy paradigm in which the Copenhagen commitment on full employment,...