The extension of the Bamako informal sector project to the other cities is the occasion for the 1986 survey of 87 blacksmiths, leather workers, weavers, shoe makers, metal workers and carpenters in Tombouctou. They are organized in four trade associations supported by the ILO-executed technical...

Estimates the global magnitude of forced labour profits in order to throw light on the scale of this economic exploitation.

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the role of rural institutions in the diffusion of agricultural technology, and innovations in Sri Lanka - based on a sample survey, discusses the effects of farm size, tenancy, farmer age, education, etc., on productivity, profits and tractor and labour use;...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on long term forecasting of regional level consumption per capita in Yugoslavia, using the BACHUE demographic aspects and economic model to produce simulations - considers the effect of income, household characteristics, social services, educational level and the...

Covers trends since the mid-1970s and includes forecasts to 1995.

Focuses on factors that are likely to influence outward migration flow from China and the Southeast Asian region, particularly the Philippines and Indonesia, in the next two decades. It finds that while current migration streams are likely to continue in the short run, important developments in...