Examines the employment situation in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, focusing on the effects of events in neighbouring Afghanistan. Highlights the impact of radical Islamic groups, drug production and trade, migration and refugee movements, trade restrictions and increased external...

Analyses isues concerning the situation of women workers in the context of current economic reform, globalization, technological change, AIDS, environmental degradation and civil strife.

Based on a survey conducted in Lagos and Zaria during 1992 which included 210 interviews in each city with entrepreneurs across seven branches: tailoring, leather-work, wood-work, construction, retailing, metal-work and transport.

Investigates the role of women workers in the manufacturing sector in general, and its sub-sectors in particular, from 1971 to 1991, especially in the light of technological development, globalization and employment flexibility.

Analyses the extent to which the performance of Peruvian microfinance institutions during the period 1998-2002 was linked to policy initiatives by national authorities.