This paper discusses possible strategies for developing countries in negotiations on trade in services in the ongoing WTO Doha Development Round (DR). The liberalization of service imports (including through direct investment) will generate benefits through higher quality, lower prices, and...

Estimates of the real term structure for the euro area implied by French index-linked bonds are obtained by means of a smoothing spline methodology. The real term structure allows computation of the constant-maturity inflation compensation, which is compared with the surveyed inflation...

This paper investigates the behavior of volatility linkage between nominal and indexlinked bond returns using a multivariate BEKK-GARCH approach. Based on daily return data for French bonds with different maturity dates and different reference indices, our analysis reveals two empirical...

ILO pub-wep pub. Working paper on obstacles to and proposals for research methodology concerning the exploitation of child labour in the informal sector of developing countries - discusses research and theoretical problems relating to non-cooperation of employers and public administration, lack...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on theoretical approaches to underemployment, disguised unemployment and labour force participation in developing countries - constitutes part of a WEP research project on population and employment. References.

Highlights the theoretical underpinnings of age discriminationin employment and examines how it is addressed in current labour law around the world.