Reviews the liberalization experience of Bolivia and Chile during the 1990s and argues that the IMF structural reform policy package had serious shortcomings.

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the interaction between population growth, income distribution and poverty, and its impact on economic development - presents an economic model for comparison of economic growth, public investment, literacy rates, and other variables affecting low income groups....

Analyses the economic, social and labour market situation in Panama and proposes policies to promote decent work.

Explores trends in the socio-economic climate in Japan during the 1980s and 1990s and examines the implications for work of changing family needs. Considers the impact on the family of working conditions and family support measures and investigates why work-family support programmes are not...

The aim of this chapter is to provide a basis for a possible course in the analysis of the unemployment rates and poverty, as well as to point to the ways to solve these long-term problems by applying different strategic measures. The main intention of the author is to explain and show a...

How can developing countries grow their economies? Most answers to this question center on what the rich world should or shouldn't do for the poor world. In The Quest for Prosperity, Justin Yifu Lin--the first non-Westerner to be chief economist of the World Bank--focuses on what developing...

Unanticipated events can cause considerable economic hardship for poor rural households. Some types of negative shocks, for example weather-related agricultural losses and vector-borne diseases, are expected to occur more frequently as a result of climate change. This paper measures the role of...