Rising food prices cause considerable policy dilemmas for developing country governments. Letting domestic prices … poor households lacking access to social safety nets. Alternatively, governments can use food subsidies or export …

While in their purchase operations, as in all other activities, governments endeavour to maximise the use of scarce …

for regional governments to shape their own policies. But the decentralization process remains partial: the macro …

This paper considers the potential role of marriage in improving labor market outcomes through the expansion of an …

business environment. Some SMEs are still able to create new business by taking advantage of more flexible divisions of labor … flexible division of labor. [ADBI Working Paper 169] …

This paper analyzes the impacts of the 1998 and 2008 financial crises on the Korean labor market. They study the … historical background of the Korean Employment Insurance System and the change of labor policies from the 1998 Asian financial …

While bans against child labor are a common policy tool, there is very little empirical evidence validating their … effectiveness. In this paper, it is examined that the consequences of India’s landmark legislation against child labor, the Child … Labor (Prohibition and Regulation) Act of 1986. Using data from employment surveys conducted before and after the ban, and …

several decades. It is important to determine what needs to be done to absorb them into employment at rising levels of labor …